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Tag: public transport.

  • Smart Auto

    Smart Auto

    The Telangana government has definitely been proactive, At the Hyderabad Litfest there was the electric auto’s on display. With two owners giving passengers a tour round the literary festival zone. The auto’s felt good, amazing colours that it came in and some how it did not look like the harassed communters rescue operation, but it…

  • Indigenous Transport of Jamnagar

    Indigenous Transport of Jamnagar

    Jamnagar As we entered the reliance inspired town, our travel owes apart. One thing I learnt from Neomi Duguid is not apologize for making conversation with the people on the street. One interesting mode of transport I saw was the Chakda  It reminded me so much of the various mythological stories we hear about the…

  • Negotiating Travel Trials.

    Last year September 18th we were travelling to Trivandrum, from Mangalore. Everyone in that train seems to travelling towards Trivandrum to appear the PG entrance exam in various streams. The only missing streams were medicine, dental and engineering. This year it was Jamnagar. It is my first visit to the state of Gujarat. We enter…

  • Etiquette in Public transport

    Candles are being light this evening in memory ofpeople who died in road accidents, maybe we should look at making our roads, and public transport safter? My scooter has conked off, and I am taking the public transport from the university to Kala Academy and back. It is quite interesting to watch people. I have…

  • Travel Etiquette,

    The Goa express is late as usual. The schedule arrival time being 4.20pm flashes on the Pune Junction display board, its 4.20 the platform is not yet announced. Neither has the Indian railways been kind enough to tell us that the train is delayed. Anyway at 5.20 the train chugs in, and we get in.…

  • The Plebeian beacons.

    Earlier when I traveled to Margao or Vasco using the shuttle. It was very strictly sitting passengers only. There were no pass holders so no one dashed to you out of the ticket vending coup. Last semester while travelling to Vasco occasionally there would be a passenger standing. But this time round I see standing…