I am a frequent traveler of public transport in Bengaluru. The world is compassionate when it comes to senior citizen and elders. So we have separate seats reserved for them in all the public transportation system. While we agree with the difficulties they face due to age, I have observed this trend of elders rudely commanding youngsters to leave the occupied seats. Respect is earned by personality and not by age. Unfortunately, our elders think otherwise and consider themselves to be superior towards anyone who sits there. Today’s youngsters are not the uneducated brats who would not offer the seat if requested. The basic sense of compassion is lost when we behave rudely with anyone younger to us. A small kid is made to adjust to the corner of a seat because we think the kid doesn’t deserve to occupy a full seat. As a child, I was always taken for granted and was one of them to be pushed away into those corners. The difficulty a child experiences owing to the crawled spac