Two extremes of emotions in 24 hrs one of a modern, efficient and developed India and one uncaring, brutal and apathetic. We all go through these emotions on a daily basis, working in swanky corporate campuses, shopping in beautiful malls to an immediate change in scene to broken roads and general administrative apathy in our country. A switch to extremes in minutes, It is truly “Incredible India”.
A ride in the Delhi Metro last week made me feel that we have arrived, a day later a visit to Secunderabad rail station caught my attention on the plight of two elderly citizens struggling to make it to the train, disillusionment again whether we will make it to the top.

For the Indian Railways to be truly world class, it is definitely not about resources alone, it is about having a vision to be world class and the government taking necessary steps in that direction. The annual Railway budget is a joke with the only objective of introducing new services on the already stretched and broken infrastructure with total disregard to safety of passengers. This annual drama should be stopped and precious paper saved. Does it strike to the Railway board that there are things like Passenger amenities, Passenger safety linked to modernization, automation of Infrastructure that need to be carried out immediately. They have plans to do it while some more accidents keep occurring. Talk about ostriches burying their head in sand.