I began 2016 by applying for transfer. In the reason, I mentioned the medical condition of my mom and submitted it. “Have you written a valid reason? Or for getting the transfer fast, you wrote any reason in that application?”…
Tag: Life in local train
Vendors were there in the train since I started commuting selling something or the other. When it comes to selling in train everything depends on the speech. Selling in train is very similar to door to door marketing. There are a…
Along with change in schedule, railways announced the rise in fare. The fare hike was planned in such a way that it was only affecting regular commuters. Railways almost doubled the charge of monthly season ticket. The effective date was not…
Railways make the necessary changes in the timings of trains in the month of October every year. In 2014, they changed the time of most of the trains but not memu. In 2015, it was certain that they are going…
Sanitation facilities in local trains are poor. On one hand railways has fitted bio-toilets in most of the express and superfast trains. While on the other hand, there is not even a simple toilet in the local trains. Not only…
In August, Ahmedabad was still no internet zone as the situation was not under control. People were still fighting with each other on the topic of reservation in some areas. There was news of deaths, people were getting seriously injured, Patel…
In July 2015, there was high tension in Gujarat due to Patel Agitation. In the first week of July, Patel community started their fight to get reservation from the government of India. They organised a peace rally in Ahmedabad to…
“Modi isn’t doing anything. I wasted my vote on him.” Mahesh Kaka started the day by commenting on Modi’s tenure as prime minister. “Who told you to vote for him? Why are you complaining now after making him Prime Minister?”…
Along with Shanti Express, schedule of most of the express and superfast trains was disturbed. The reason was track work between Vadodara and Surat. Shanti Express was habituated to getting late but other express and superfast trains were running on…
In the last week of May, I saw a huge crowd at Vatva in the morning. Vatva is a second stop between Ahmedabad and Anand. It was a small village earlier but now it is a part of Ahmedabad city….