Friday, August 27, 2010

the indian railways


I have always believed to bring this nation together everyone will have to come on a same platform to make it a better place. It may be the neighbourhood or the country.  There is one place where this nation gets united, comes together forgetting differences of the age old legacies.
The Indian Railways
Punjabis laughing and enjoying the songs of the Muslim singers, Gujarati vendor selling Bananas to Sindhi women, co passengers smiling at others, Muslim man helping Hindu women to take out the luggage or manage the middle berths to sleep, Jain boy helping a Punjabi granny to fill up a bottle of water from the station and so much more keeps on happening.

Suddenly the religions, the castes, the inequalities fade out and the humanity zoom in. 
Everyone is a human with a soul connect. 
The connect of God, the connect of the universe.

Railways have always been one amazing platform for portraying the unity in 
diversity and the concepts of “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam” on the wheels.