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Touchstones: Why we behave like louts

I have often wondered why we Indians find it so difficult to stand in orderly lines or await our turn
Go to any bus stop or railway platform and see for yourself how passengers shove and push to enter and grab a seat. Old people, women, young mothers with babies in arms — no one is respected. ISTOCK

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