Death on a Bangalore train

Somebody fished out a tablet strip from his pocket and, as advised by a doctor who was giving instructions on the mobile, we pushed the medicine too...Seemingly the longest journey ever that I traveled, of 12 minutes, ended as the train steamed in to Maddur...More...

My train rides

The diesel engine never had a characteristic whistle, I have always wondered about that, why did it come with a bbrooooobroooah sounding horn instead? Research tells me that the classic steam whistle was made to work with steam, and since steam at that pressure was no longer available in diesel’s they developed the bleating horn...More...

Lalu-opadesa: Lalu's at it again

What I can't figure out is how our b-schools, business chambers and hoteliers association, who know well enough how our railways work, can fall for the minister's Lalu-opadesa, as if it was a management Gitapodesa . . .More. . .

Rail travel notes

I have yet to come across one who relished – I mean, yummy-yummied – a meal in the train. That the train food is no good isn’t worth writing about. What intrigues me is capability of caterers to serve meals in trains that are so uniformly tasteless. . .More. . .