8th Nov
On a train from new Delhi to Armistar. What an awesome awesome invaluable experience. After a fairly traumatic morning in order to purchase a same day ticket to an unexpected location (as I'm supposed to be in Nepal right now) we decided Haridwar in the morning but due to visa bullshit etc we decided Armistar.... Anyways.. I once again randomly tangent... My point. Medium distance train journeys. 7hrs. What a fascinating and insightful experience. Fascinating because every other minute there are vendors walking up and down the isles of the train selling either cold drinks, biriyani, cold dhal, key rings, people crawling on the floor sweeping up old peanut shells and other rubbish, or young children doing forward rolls up and down the isle and using a small iron hoop for contortions and body manipulations for a finale!! Insightful... Because, besides us being the centre of attention for about 20-30 by standers (men of course) all of these people toward the end of the journey are giggling and communicating with one another as if they have been long time friends and or could possibly be brothers or relatives.
On a train from new Delhi to Armistar. What an awesome awesome invaluable experience. After a fairly traumatic morning in order to purchase a same day ticket to an unexpected location (as I'm supposed to be in Nepal right now) we decided Haridwar in the morning but due to visa bullshit etc we decided Armistar.... Anyways.. I once again randomly tangent... My point. Medium distance train journeys. 7hrs. What a fascinating and insightful experience. Fascinating because every other minute there are vendors walking up and down the isles of the train selling either cold drinks, biriyani, cold dhal, key rings, people crawling on the floor sweeping up old peanut shells and other rubbish, or young children doing forward rolls up and down the isle and using a small iron hoop for contortions and body manipulations for a finale!! Insightful... Because, besides us being the centre of attention for about 20-30 by standers (men of course) all of these people toward the end of the journey are giggling and communicating with one another as if they have been long time friends and or could possibly be brothers or relatives.
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