The Litter Along The Rails Haunts Me !!

Reached New Delhi Station at 11:00 am . Found platform seven from the computerised sign board with some difficulty . The usual foul smell of the railway platform greeted me . Surprise ! Surprise ! there were few new denizens of the area who were bit shying away here and there . They were fat , unhealthy not old . The Rats !! it was a revolting site to the heaps of waste on the platform . But there was no escape now . We are all prisoners of the great Lalu - I MEAN THE RAILWAYS . The bookshop was also disappointing .

The train - Kerala Express - left on time . Shivaji Park , Tilak Bridge passed by . The continual heaps of garbage made the rail journey a kind of time travel through the dumping shitty grounds of India --My Mother India , The India of Shivaji & Tilaks .

The TT,"Sir" . "Oh ! Yes" . "Thank You" , I said .

The journey continued .

The factories & homes can be allotted adjoining areas of rails on a renewable lease . The authorities can earn quite a bit of money & save itself from this Herculean Task of cleaning up . Surely , do what you will. The west will keep giving a condescending smile till we are seen to be humans who like to live in a clean environment . The rag pickers perhaps can be consulted for help rather than the Health Dept. & Municipalities .

The other day I had to go to Noida from Faridabad via Jaitpur . It was another journey between nallahs of Delhi . The shame of all this was more apparent when I saw the vegetable vendors washing radish in the pitch dark polluted waters that appeared to fume and froth . But the damned waters could hardly scare its users . It is a shameful reflection on the Health Officers & all those responsible for this . This is my Delhi of <2008> 2009 gearing up for the 2010 SHOW . I think , We are the GREATEST PRETENDERS on this Earth !


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says ..........
Mr. Kuldip Singh
{Founder Principal , Homerton Grammar School}{M.A. English , U.I.T. Royal Society Of Arts , C.E.S.Ed Warwick , C.T.M. Cambridge}


The story continues after months of reading the article i don't see a change anywhere . You all might be thinking why he doesn't see so much , which is good in India . The garbage , The litter along the rails haunts .

Centuries of foreign rule has made us spineless --

Is our country - Mother India , India of Shivajis and Tilaks ready for the Common Wealth .This is just a phase which is not even covering the mind baffling Litter in India and not even the actual exact condt.of the railways .

There is much more to say but is anybody listening ??