The next 300 kms or so along one of the busiest tracks in the country.ĭomestic civil aviation never really took off in Indian Punjab in spite of there being more than a dozenĪirports available. The Delhi-Attari/Wagah train is not permitted byīilateral treaty to stop anywhere in Punjab, so after a technical halt at Ambala (Haryana), it is non-stop for The old Grand Trunk Road/Sher Shah Suri Marg axis. Sticking into India. The fastest route, rail and road, which we are swishing on, is along International border on to Amritsar via Khem Karan thanks to the Hussainiwala chicken-neck of Pakistan The pre-Partition optional route through Bhatinda-Faridkot and Firozpur loses its old connection at the Makes for fascinating rail-spotting and route planning.

All of Indian Punjab has this spider's web of train tracks and good roads which Other trains break off from Delhi to go via Rohtak, Jind, Dhuri, toĬonnect back at Ludhiana. Western U.P., crosses the Yamuna again at, where else, Yamuna Nagar, then joins the Calcutta-Moradabad Now renamed Golden Temple Express, crosses the Yamuna River at Delhi, heads for Saharanpur/Jagadhri through The old Frontier Mail, which used to go all the way from the Frontier, now way inside Pakistan, to Bombay, There is more than one route by train from Delhi to Amritsar.

My dear friend Deepak Banerjee can, till today, have long and insightful arguments about the subjectĪs well as about our respective ancestors-and their sexual mores-with me, and we both enjoy them as much as Memorising time-tables was the equivalent of an addictive video game for us then. Growing up in this ye olde relic of the Raj railway (Eastern Railway) town of Jamalpur, we would manage Indian Railway (IR) and Pakistani Railway (PR) joint announcement, recalled from memory, apparently non-fiction.ĭo you love trains too? I can never sleep on them. From the Magazine Brave New World Under The Shadow Of The Pandemic The Four Horsemen Of Apocalypse Umar Khalid’s Prison Diary: Bigotry Against Muslims Leaves Me Even Lonelier Covid Nightmare: Time Of The Living Dead Meowdi: A Short Story by Perumal Murugan

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