lumbering mass

still in delhi now

the shatabdi express is the very fast version of the
japanese bullet train. (It actualy moves at 60 miles an hour but
for india that is very fast indeed!)
It's an experience as its full of rich indians who are overweight and get
almost everything done for them. Yes folks its all about the cash on that vehicle.
So each time i come here i try and get at least a journey on it just to juxta pose
it's internal existence compared to the realities outside the window.
there is something quite sick about it actually.
fat folk moving around on a bubble of air conditioned metal
while outside folk scrape to make ends meet.
in many ways i can see the parallels with the rich in the west.
we all live in debt and the rich float above looking down in a bubble of
anaesthetized nonchalance.
the staff onbaod had to work flat out as in my 5 hrs from amritsar to delhi
we had three meals of quite a good quality. they also served drinks and pandered to the rich folks demands. the extreme difference between rich and poor here is very obvious
whereas in the uk we hide it behind debt and a stiff upper loin cloth.
the lady next to me for the first half of the trip was a doctor who had just moved to canada.
we talked of corruption and the billions that are creamed off here by the elite
as the poor cant even get a meal.
a little bit like how the us government gave over 110$ million to build
the superdome donw in the hurrican hit south and yet folk havent even got
enough to rebuild homes or for basic eminities.( will someone please wake dreamland america up
to the realities that it shares alot of the third world issues with india!!)
anyhow the other guy next to me was a website database cha who did some work for the
uk companies in leeds and yorkshire my hometown.
small world hey?

so we ate too much
felt fine in the ac
moaned about the long journeyish?
then the rich had their bags moved by coolies
and i walked off back into the screaming mass of humanity that dwells
on the sidewalk near the entrance to the olde world charm that is the
indian railway station

you have to come here
soon to see it before its all gone

bo