Why l love Indian Railways...
I travelled through many trains in India and here in US too with all my reflection the diffrence one will always say that Rail services in Developed nation are much better ( neat clean , on time ) but there is something terribly wrong in this whole system... people dont seem to enjoy the journey...
A Platform crowded with stalls of vendors , some vending machine , some police wala passing time with themselves or eating khaini . A red shirt man carrying bags and baggage to the bogies and trail of people following him guiding him .some carts passing by selling some articles, some food items ... on tracks a stray dog sniffing, rats running through the holes and people checking the reservation charts far by ... checking as if its another university result for them ..
This is my Indian Platform .. It may sound really awful for westerners that what the hell theplace is ... As there they have those neat clean stations, where you get electronic tickets, nicely dressesd Guard, ticket checker , automatic doors in trains, Air conditioned compartments , cushioned seats, cleaned compartments.. enough space for people to sit capture one of there liked one..
But IF you see carefully none of the passenger talk to each other... they either pull out there Laptops, novels , magazines.. or a small cake like machine which i find is a boon to this type of society ( IPOD ) they call it ...Well you may say the boon of technology or the bane for human interaction you will find less people interacting except if they are in Group ..
the same notes are given tome by my friends who have travelled across europe
So here we are in this part of the world.. even one person boards the train atleast asks the other passenger " bhaisaab kahaan tak ja rahaye hai "
Well this is missing in the most civilised society .. as they say ...they dont talk to people...
is that what development does to people..
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