An Indecisive Indian

  All the romance and legacy of 170-year-old Indian Railways apart, what is very bothersome for any railwayman in India is the question: why do our trains look the same year after year? The same metallic-box look with inelegant windows and doors. The only thing which changed has been the colour from gulf red to blue. Introduction of air-conditioned coaches was indeed a minor mutation but that happened forty years ago and these AC coaches have nearly the same recall. We changed the look somewhat when we brought a new technology from Germany but the novelty and its effect were short-lived; we make these German-technology trains in much larger numbers but they have also taken the same bleak appearance. A look at the passenger trains of Indian Railways is like a millionth déja vu of more of the same.    The perennial question: when will IR have modern trains?   This question of IR’s rolling stock always bothered me and readers may find it surprising that a railw...

I wrote about the Corona pandemic in March 2021 with an    underlying theme in the programme that India had done well, or at least much better than other big countries, and we should be OK with some feel good without being sheepish about it; I did add that it was not the time to drop our guard so the second wave was subdued quickly. I was way out of line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5rjvGJmMQs   And we were hit by unprecedented misery all around,   it gradually dawned that the situation got out of hand largely due to smug mismanagement by government(s). Nobody could see the ferocity of what was coming but my point was that had the machinery, the mandate and they should have known and acted. Government(s) must know, perceive, discern, learn and act. Our government(s) did not:  http://anindecisiveindian.blogspot.com/2021/04/i-didnt-tell-you-sobut-you-ought-to.html I recently made amends, if amend were possible, through my programme on YouTube, ...