Oh for Heaven's sake! Cut out the practical jokes already!
It's the first of April, the start of a New financial Year for taxpaying indians and other rare entities.
Well the joke is on you folks, railway fares are up, and you're paying more than you did yesterday for jostling along rickety tracks that were mostly left behind by the Brits when they left for Blighty some 60 years ago.
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| LET'S DRINK TO THE HEALTH OF THE CHOO-CHOO TRAINS! |
The railway system in India, is a hopeless tangle, any way you look at it. Its an unsafe, unhygenic, unpunctual, uneconomic, ill-run, behemoth that moans its pain with every wailing train that pulls into its plethora of platforms. By all accounts it should have breathed its last a long time ago. Yet, year after year, more unviable, financially suicidal projects are added on to its payload.
On this day of Fools, let's salute the Indian Railways, it's India's longest running Miracle!
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