Window View - Train to Mumbai
August Kranti Express, one of India's fastest trains, is waiting to leave Platform No. 6 of Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station. It is a luxury train. Tickets are expensive; bogies are air-conditioned, windows have two thick glasses – the countryside could be experienced without feeling any of its dust and filth.
Named after a day important in the narrative of the country's freedom struggle, the train would pass through some of India's poorest regions where debt-ridden farmers are known to commit suicide. But the well-off middle-class passengers...
more... would not be bothered. It is a night train and they would open their eyes when the express would have already reached the outskirts of the bubble called Bombay. Bon Voyage.
By Mayank Austen Soofi