Write on “My visit to the bank”
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Hundreds of people visit banks daily. All kinds of people visit all kinds of banks. One of these ‘all kinds of banks’ is the State Bank of India and a category from ‘all kinds of people’ are the people who don’t know how to write except their names. I visited the bank recently. And while waiting for my turn to come I observed a woman, in her thirties probably talking to the peon, asking for assistance. And suddenly a little problem came ahead of her. I was surprised to observe that the little problem of her was that she had to fill a form. Something people like you and me are used to. She started looking here and there with those eyes full of hope. In a vast university with strength of almost 15,000 people, who has the time to help someone not known to them? She asked the peon in the very first place. His looks were enough to deny the help. And she started asking every girl that had come to visit the bank, to help her with the form. As the population included me as well, she came to me! I started filling her form, asking all her details one by one.
While filling the form, I asked for her ID proof. To my amazement, she took out a polythene bag full of all sorts of cards. Some cards had her picture on them and some were of her husband. I look for her Adhaar Card and filled in the details. After 15 minutes of interrogation I completed her form and I asked her to sign the form where applicant’s signatures were required. She with all her concentration held the pen as if it was a discomforting object to hold and wrote her name in Hindi, her handwriting similar to that of a kid of UKG class. Maybe a bit better!
Seeing Guddi, I felt helpless about the fact that except for filling a form I couldn’t help her in any way possible. How helpless had she been feeling? Maybe she has left hope and whenever she’ll go to a bank, she’ll expect someone or the other to help her but we can help avoid such a situation for many upcoming “Guddis”.