Cricket, politics and cinema are often called the connecting forces that unite India but on a physical level I think it’s the Indian railways. Take a longish route and you’re soon exposed to the most myriad types of experiences and people. What better way to foster tolerance and understanding than being stuffed in a metal cabin with other people?
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A Rogue Gallery
A Gallery of Criminals at an Indian railway station. It took me quite sometime to get the reflection of the train on the glass right.
Here is another pic of a Railway Driver reading a newspaper in the morning.