Indian Railways Ajmer Bandra Terminus Special Was A Nightmare, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
The worst customer unfriendly transport service in India is the Indian Railways , they issue tickets even when there is no space in the train, while travelling from Ajmer to Bandra my waiting list was 457 it got stuck at 251 and I requested a few people to accommodate me till I met the Ticket Collector but there was no TC nor Railways cops this entire bogey was packed with people with or without valid ticket or no ticket.
One of the Miya guys took a panga with a military guy and at the next stop his battalion came in and drove the ruffians out.
The bathroom was inaccessible as every place was taken away by the unruly passengers , I shot pictures of a guy sitting comfortably with all his stuff in the western style toilet..
There was no water in the toilet and it is a crying shame Indian Railways is either famous for uncalled for accidents or complete apathy during any pilgrimage.
The Indian Railways minister should travel incognito on these trains he will know what the Indian traveller or even backpacker from foreign countries has to go through.
A pilgrim must be given comfort and the Pilgrimage to Ajmer Sharif is no ordinary pilgrimage but because it is a pilgrimage by the poor predominantly and Muslims the authorities take a light view..Let the fucker suffer they say to themselves.
I slept on the train floor and I think it was a journey that began well ended well despite the hardships sufferings and pain, imagine now the plight of children young mothers senior citizens in this fucked train..
Indian Railways is hard of hearing has no sympathy a wooden heart like their beg bug infested coaches in the train.
