Hydrogen Hallucinations & Hyperloop Hoopla: A Celestial Dialogue Between Shakespeare and Ghālib
Ta-da! And now, for the next act in the theatre of the absurd. Indian Railways (IR) is now galloping boldly into the brave new world of Hydrogen and Hyperloop—a world where physics bows to press releases and engineering is powered by emojis. The media, true to form, has inflated these nascent initiatives to Himalayan proportions, as if Hydrogen will waft us to net-zero overnight and Hyperloop will have us zipping from Dadar to Dhanbad in ten minutes flat. My venerable great-uncle Shakespeare and my ever-acerbic chachā (uncle) Ghālib, nestled in their five-star celestial lounge (complete with shisha bar and poetic banter), looked upon this spectacle with bemused disdain. Unexpectedly, they did not argue. They merely sipped their ambrosial cocktails and watched silently, minds aflutter with verse and vinegar. But worry not, dear reader. Thanks to my inter-dimensional, divine WiFi, their mental murmurings pinged directly into my brain—a cosmic WhatsApp chat, if you will. And so, I presen...