Carnatic singer Sivasri Skandaprasad has recounted her “traumatic” train journey where a group of middle-aged men occupied most of the coach and inconvenienced other passengers by talking and laughing loudly.
Skandaprasad, who is married to Tejasvi Surya, the BJP Member of Parliament from Bengaluru South, said that the group of 40 men became a public nuisance by shouting and talking loudly for the entirety of the five-hour journey. She said the group took up much of the 56-seater train coach and continued talking non-stop for the whole ride. When we are in public, we should not shout or even talk loudly and disrespect every individual’s personal space in public.
“I had a traumatic train ride today,” Sivasri Skandaprasad said in an X post this morning. The singer and founder of Ahuti said that while artists “thrive in silence”, her own wish for a silent train journey was shattered by the large group of men in her coach. Calling out their lack of civic sense, the Bengaluru-based singer said: “It is very sad to see how people do not respect public spaces enough. “It is an unsaid rule that the other 16 of us which aren’t part of the group should simply endure them,” she said. (Also read: Who is Sivasri Skandaprasad, Carnatic singer who married Bengaluru MP Tejasvi Surya? )
