Train Journey's

I suppose every Indian would agree to the statement that a journey in the Indian trains is a one to be always remembered for all the good and the bad reasons...with all due respects to the Indian Railways.
I find myself eligible to post something on this as i have been doing it myself on a very large scale in the recent past(10hrs,ahmd. ->mumbai + 18hrs,mumbai->hyd. + 26hrs, hyd ->bhub. + 40 hrs,bhub->ahmd. ) but probably not on something as crowded as the one in the picture...(thats horryfying!!!)
There were a few things that struck me in each of these journeys probably in all journeys so far....some common to all n some not so..Much before we have realised Richard Attenborough illustrated in his movie "Gandhi"(1982) how Gandhi(Ben Kingsley) Discovered India/Rural India travelling in a train, and rightly so. Trains have been a big revolution in India ever since it was first introduced in the late 1890's ...which could be easily understood by the fact that India now has the Fourth largest railway system in the world and about 13000 of them ply everyday carrying about 3million people..
Although the number of people that enter a train may not always be the same as the ones who leave it!!!! well that does happen but its a rarity....
if you think this is the end of it ...then may be you are mistaken:there are lot more reasons for which train are used in India ..there's hardly any movie made in India without a sequence in a train...it may be an action,comedy,dramatic or even a romantic one????

The passage above had lot of facts and figures but now i will keep it to my own understanding of it.
The experience of a train journey usually varies between age groups..i mean the children enjoy it in one way ...the teenagers/young adults in some other way... and aged adults if at all they do,definetly in different way(i am not too sure about them as i have never been one).

As a child..atleast when i was a child ..i would get the stomach ache listening to the terrifying horn of the train on its arrival..i always thought it bought about some sudden anxiety in the people waiting for it ....but once into it, was heaven for me.i used to go crazy to get a glance of the engine while the trian was in motion ,(this happenes when train turns...).the interior of the train would for me resemble an amusement park!!!i would hang about the staircase meant to climb over.. then would go about doing all my feats....get excited with arrival of every new station..try to understand how the train shifted the tracks???how did a train turn if at all, every part of it is straight..the coaches and the engines are straight??and many more questions of the same class used to flare up in my mind..
i still remember i loved to take a look at the train that i had just departed from...which still amazes me!!!
but more or less i used to carry the same energy levels throughout my journey......

but as i grew into my teenagehood i started observing lot more things than i what i did in my childhood....
something like i started taking note of the differences in culture between people from different states..i think trains are one of the best places to do it...different dressing styles..different kinds of foods...different languages...different thinking in some cases...
i started to observe the nature more closely..started developing interest for some natural beauties(dont be mistaken for something else)....especially the waterfall i saw on the way from mumbai to pune in the monsoon season near a popular destination khandala as long as 8yrs ago.
but i still remember not liking to interact with people around ...probably was an introvert at that age....and i obviously cut out on the tarzan activities in the train....also due to my over grown belly..

into late teenagehood and early adulthood....you see emotions develop by then ...you then rate all the above activities below dignity...you start opening up with others ..start sharing views and slowly but steadily start noticing the other natural beauties....u know what i mean..oh c'mmon.
well i do it myself...
and the other thing i developed at this age is the boredom which i had never faced before....this may be due to the fact that the patience levels of a person are very low at that age..and also may be that i have travelled so much already that there nothing more interesting left in the journey.
this was what i had really experienced in my recent travel...
have i travelled a bit too much ?????i start wondering sometimes...
Yet i cannot do away without train journeys afterall its still remains the simplest,cheapest and the best way to go about places in India...

ExAm TiMe????###$$$

have my end sem exams starting next monday...probably will be my last exam for the sem if nothing goes wrong..
have not got great scores in previous ones , so need to pull my socks..
am in a bit of tension these days..infact a bit nore than that ..regarding my grades ..i know it would be hard for me once out of my btech if it continues this way..
nothing else on my mind these days..
have made good friends in the past few weeks ..
and nothing more from my side..

diwali-05

Hi everybody,
this has been quite a long time since i last posted something. i am being very lazy at this.i need to get this blog going.well for now i will just go about how i celebrated this diwali without actually burning any crackers!!(that the funniest part of it). for the last one week (which was supposed to be my in-sem break),i only managed to increase my weight by a few pounds;courtesy the TV, my aunt who over feeds me and then ofcourse my damn sleep....was in mumbai for the entire week but didnot move a step out of the house.will be back in the institute next monday ...and then it will all be back to normal..

Guess The Moral

This is the story of a small girl, teacher and a butterfly!!

One day the teacher explains the class about the life cycle of a butterfly. At the end of the class a little girl notices a Cocoon in the class. She observes that the butterfly inside it is struggling to come out of it. Out of pity, she breaks the cocoon and puts the butterfly on the teacher's table. She now doesn’t understand why the butterfly is unable to fly. (Earlier

That day the teacher tells the class that once the butterfly is out of its cocoon it starts to fly)

The next day the teacher sees the butterfly on her table and predicts what could have happened.

Then she explains the class about something from which i think both of us have a lesson to learn:-

Only when the butterfly is in the cocoon and undergoes all the frustration will it feel like to come out of it. This frustration enables the butterfly to make all its efforts in coming out of it. In this process it learns and also perfects the art of flying and moving. Thus when it is finally out it is in a position to fly and move about easily since it had already

Perfected this art in the cocoon itself.

**Now coming to butterfly which the girl had put on the table, since it is already out and has not undergone the frustration that it would have if it was in the cocoon, it doesn’t learn to fly or move. Now the problem is that it doesn’t even realize that it has the ability to fly or move just because it is already in the Mother Nature.

Thus the butterfly has learnt to fly only because of the hard time it has faced in the cocoon.

Dream.....

" It was a dream once upon a time,
when i just learnt to dream,
kept dreaming to make it a reality,
lived with the dream every unit of time,
came as close as i could to the dream,
only to realize that it will remain a dream unfullfilled forever...."


you could post any poems or short interesting passages u have got ,which relates to any of your own experiences.......

Dream.....

" It was a dream once upon a time,
when i just learnt to dream,
kept dreaming to make it a reality,
lived with the dream every unit of time,
came as close as i could to the dream,
only to realize that it will remain a dream unfullfilled forever...."


you could post any poems or short interesting passages u have got ,which relates to any of your own experiences.......

why did religion come into existence??????

hi,
The other day when i was just discussing reagarding this with my friends,i just felt that the religion had come into existence even because of fear of death in the minds of people. Thus people who had faith in religion could actually get it away (by worshiping their diety). It in no way means that i donot have faith in religion, i do have faith , but i guess this could possibly be a reason for it to come into existence.

my first day

hi everybody .
getting to know how to operate blogs.