How can people bring themselves to do this to a fellow human ?

As it is, it is so stressful to read the daily newspaper, given the abnormal rise in road accidents
all over India. And then, when you read something like what happened to this lady, you are like, "What the hell is happening to people ?"

This lady boards a train with her two kids. She has only a normal second class ticket, which makes her eligible only to travel in the unreserved compartment. If she wants to travel in the reserved compartment, she can pay the fare difference in the train itself to the Train Ticket Examiner (TTE).

Due to reasons known only to her (maybe heavy summer vacation rush in the train), she
boards a reserved compartment with her kids. The TTE comes to check tickets and seeing that her ticket does not entitle her to be in the reserved coach, asks her to go to the unreserved coach.

She tells him that she is ready to pay the fare difference for travelling in reserved coach. But he is in no mood to listen and insists that she move to the unreserved coach. The problem with his directive is that the train is in motion and since the unreserved coaches are not vestibule-linked, she can do that only when the train stops next.

Actually she need not follow his directive, because she is ready to pay the fare difference, which is well within the Railway rules. But he wants her to move out of the reserved coach then itself, moving train be damned. And then he pushes her out of the speeding train. Can you imagine someone doing that ?

She falls and sustains serious injuries to her head. She is infact lucky to be alive. Think of the poor lady thrown out of a running train for no valid reason. What would her small kids have
gone through seeing their Mom pushed out of a train ? It is so sad that people stoop to such levels, in their interaction with a fellow human.

Many decades ago an Indian was thrown out of a train, with his bag & baggage. He had not done any crime and had a valid First Class ticket for the train he was travelling in. The problem then was that the TTE (a white South African) did not find it palatable that a brown man was travelling in First Class comfort. It did not matter that the brown guy had paid for his ticket.

Even though the action was racist, we should atleast credit the South African TTE for making him detrain at a station when the train stopped and not throwing him off a running train. Because, if he had indeed thrown him out of a running train, the world would not have got the personality called Mahatma Gandhi and in all probability, India would still have been under British rule.

I just hope the lady recovers soon, her kids get over the trauma that they had to go through
and the TTE is punished for his action.