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With Suresh Prabhu “II Traveltravel Eextensivelyxtensively Byby Traintrain” MORPARIA’S PAGE E-mail: [email protected] Morparia.pmd 2 6/16/2015, 3:22 PM Contents APRIL 2015 VOL.18/9 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ THEME: Morparia’s page 2 Indian Railways A speed obsession 5 V. Gangadhar A higher price to pay? 6 Managing editor A. Hari Mrs. Sucharita R. Hegde Reflections on the railway budget 8 S. Ananthanarayanan Editor A British legacy still on track 10 Anuradha Dhareshwar Rajendra Aklekar Hear the whistle blow! 14 Assistant Editor Sudhir Badami E.Vijayalakshmi Rajan Surviving the ‘encounter’ 16 16 Nivedita Louis Design Konkan Railway – India’s marvel 18 H. V. Shiv Shankar Dilip Chaware Spiritual journeys, literally! 20 Marketing Om Prakash Narayan Mahesh Kanojia Married to the railways...er, railway man! 22 Shail Raghuvanshi OIOP Clubs Know India Better Vaibhav Palkar Travel, Maharaja Class! 23 Md. Masarrath Ali Khan Subscription The rails in India’s reels 39 Nagesh Bangera Akul Tripathi 23 Face to Face 41 Suresh Prabhu: Anuradha Dhareshwar Advisory board Features Features Sucharita Hegde The watersheds in Indian democratic politics 44 Justice S. Radhakrishnan B. Ramesh Babu Venkat R. Chary Are marriage symbols gender-centric? 46 Shoma A. Chatterji Cultural Kaleidoscope - Kanak Rele 48 Printed & Published by Now or never! 50 Mrs. Sucharita R. Hegde for Tirtho Banerjee One India One People Foundation, Column 52 Mahalaxmi Chambers, 4th floor, Nature watch : Bittu Sahgal 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, In focus : C.V. Aravind Mumbai - 400 026 41 Young India 54 Tel: 022-2353 4400 Suresh Prabhu Great Indians 56 Fax: 022-2351 7544 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Printed at: Graphtone (India) Pvt. Ltd. A1 /319, Shah & Nahar Industrial Estate. S. J. Marg, Lower Parel (W) Mumbai – 400 013 visit us at: www.oneindiaonepeople.com Daggubati Vinod Mehta Major Udai Singh www.facebook.com/oneindiaonepeoplefoundation Ramanaidu SM, SC oneindiaonepeople2020.blogspot.com Contents.pmd 3 6/16/2015, 3:23 PM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “Slogan of unity and integrity” I recently had the opportunity to go through your beautiful magazine “Delighted with the Northeast issues” “One India One People’. I read with delight your two issues on Northeast. What a In particular, I read the commendable effort in this day and age when most magazines March 2015 issue. The and news media are only bothered about sensational news. name of the magazine itself I hope you keep up this effort and continue to carry similar is the slogan of unity and articles. Kindly add some articles on food and health too integrity. The content is on a regular basis. It would also be good to see some more very informative and very articles on women’s issues, especially in today’s day and age different from the other when there is so much talk of women’s safety and crimes magazines in the market. It is also very unique in its quality against women. We live in very uncertain times indeed and and content. I also liked the tone and language of the with so much unnecessary censorship happening, the real magazine. I hope to read your magazine on a regular basis. issue of women’s safety gets buried under all the rhetoric. Once again, my compliments to your team and you for this Hope your magazine takes so more interest in this. Keep up magazine. Thank you. the good work! – Mohd.Husain Sahil, received on e-mail – Prerna Nair, Chennai Letters should be addressed to Mumbai - 400 026 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mahalaxmi Chambers, 4th floor, Foundation, One India People The Editor, 022-2351 7544 e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected] www.oneindiaonepeople.com 022 - 2353 4400 Fax: Tel: 4 ONE INDIA ONE PEOPLE April 2015 LLetter.inddetter.indd 4 66/16/2015/16/2015 44:05:23:05:23 PMPM SATIRE A speed obsession Millions of Indians travel by train, more than by air. And they will all be grateful for a clean and safe commute. So why this obsession with speed? V. Gangadhar urges Indian Railways to slow down. think the American do-gooder Ralph Nader had nothing ages without diapers. ‘Make Indian Railways Your Home’ else to do. And went on tinkering with everything which screamed a poster pasted inside a Janata sleeper coach. I provided him with mechanical thrills. A private citizen, Taking this to heart, the mobs cooked, ate, washed clothes he took on the might of U.S. (United States) auto giants and utensils inside the train, and the limited supply of water like Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, detected faults in was exhausted before we reached Lonavala. But no one was their mechanism and stopped millions of them plying on bothered about the rest of the trip. Cursing, I got down from the roads. They were taken back to the factories for repairs the coach every four hours at different stations to alert the and then put back on roads. Detroit and other auto cities station maters that we had run out of water. The Central hated him but for millions of car owners, he was a kind Railways rose to the occasion and provided us water till the saviour from auto-mayhem. He contested the train chugged into Kerala. U.S. Presidential election as an Independent, Indians have a The return journey was equally “exciting”. but since the U.S. believed it could not exist different outlook. The third class coach was slightly different. without cars and political party candidates, Most of us rely Almost every one of those travelled with he was eliminated. But times have changed. on rail transport huge sacks of coconuts. Enormous bundles Japan and South Korea have overtaken and the network scattered all over the coach and huge jack Detroit, and the U.S. car industry can no is vast. We are fruits carried by some of the passengers longer afford to contest the Presidential poll. also emotionally emitting their own strong flavours. While Indians have a different outlook. Most gastronomic juices flowed freely, I was attached to trains. of us rely on rail transport and the network certain that even the best airlines could not Even as babies we is vast. We are also emotionally attached to have provided such a magnificent treat. are familiar with the trains. Even as babies we are familiar with Speed was not everything though many phrase chuk chuk the phrase chuk chuk gaadi. Airplanes and people repeated the phrases ‘rushing off gaadi. zooming cars are for the affluent. Trains to catch a train’. Perhaps I am a bit old are for the masses, a category to which I fashioned and am not happy with the belonged. Till I reached middle age, I was phrase ‘I am rushing to catch a flight’. accustomed to travelling by Janata class in trains. Then Basically I am scared of excessive speed and often advise came the Sleeper I, Sleeper II, AC Sleeper III and II and the cab driver to slow down and take me to my destination finally, occasional air travel. The early era of travel was bad. in one piece. Na Mo is now talking of Bullet Speed trains Along with thousands of people, I had to fight my way into as they have in Japan. I am excited that such trains will one of the unreserved third class coaches and left the rest of come to India one day. But will they operate under the the journey to God. Occasionally, God was great at providing diktat of Uma Bharati followers who may pull the alarm me with a second class coupe for a trip from Bombay to chain every five minutes? I pity our new Calcutta for an interview for a salesman’s job, courtesy BATA railway Minister Suresh Prabhu who Shoe Co. The coach built during British days had a bath has to deal with the same politicians room with a shower. and the same rowdy commuters. For Other memories were quite unpleasant, the misery them, at any speed, chain pulling is a being caused by passengers who would not travel light or major entertainment. be clean. They were not co-passengers but mobs who had never heard of family planning and carried babies of all The writer is a well-known satirist. ONE INDIA ONE PEOPLE April 2015 5 LLetter.inddetter.indd 5 66/16/2015/16/2015 44:05:23:05:23 PMPM INDIAN RAILWAYS AA higherhigher priceprice toto pay?pay? The Indian Railways may have a very busy passenger segment, carrying passengers equivalent to the world’s population every year, but it also incurs humongous losses on this sector. A. Hari unravels the mystery behind this and tells us what steps need to be taken to make Indian Railways more cost and fare efficient. NDIAN Railways is today one of the leading rail networks such as distance, class of travel and category of train. The of the world as far as passenger numbers is concerned, as passenger fares must cover at least the operational costs for Ithe number of passengers transported every year is different classes of travel. A gradual rise in fares at regular equivalent to almost the population of the entire world. Still, intervals must be made so as to ensure recovery of operational the railways incurred a huge loss of around ` 25,000 crore cost over a period of time. during 2012-13 from the passenger segment. Indian Railways The fare structure of other competing modes of travel must needs to initiate an action plan to make the passenger business also be considered while fixing the passenger fare structure. profitable and attractive. This can be achieved only if there is There are different competing modes based on the class and a total rethink on the pricing strategy for passenger traffic.
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