Tuesday, November 10, 2009

mysterious indian railways

"gadi bula rahi hai,siti baja rahi hai"
chalna hi jindagi hai,chalti hi ja rahi hai"
truly the last month has been an almost unending story of travel with indian railways .a totally different world with its mysterious charms and fancies.a world that drives the life of millions of people cutting across the whole of country and religion.the chaotic atmosphere at platforms filled with holy cries of beggars and commercial shouts of commonly tea and coffee and local favourites .a dieheart effort to stop unauthorised vendors entering trains and selling their goods in an "its different " style has been an unyielding attempt.indian railways sleeper coach is nothing less than a mini india where you get flavours of different states as well as different economic classes barring high class which normally forms a very small percentage of our still developing economy.the lower class to feel better prefers it the middile class feels its the place where they belong and then comes the snobbish,smart and celebrated passengers of sleeper class who prefer it to save some money which they plan to take to heaven and often say that they normally travel in ac but because of a late plan they settled for this and with a normal know how one can tell that it is easier to get an ac ticket than a sleeper one.
when it comes to reservations there are lots of facts which can leave you dumb.you have a waiting list ticket and it is yet not confirmed and when you enter quarter of the train is empty.you ask the tc for the birth he would ask for extra maney which he should not and if you decline he would give birth to a passenger with a general ticket.

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