<India should shun all that is British and give up the railways, even though it is the biggest factor that unites the country and the biggest employer. When and if India does that then wecan say India has truly arrived. I have read recently that with the Rs 1 fare, all and sundry will travel by Air; whoopee! If not we can always go back to the Bullock and cart !>[Gabe Menezes, May 12]
Is this a case of going from the sublime to the ridiculous? Hope not! I too feel that more importance should be giiven to air travel and the railways and road transport should give more priroty to providing high speed access to airports. But outright replacement which you advocate makes no sense whatsoever except perhaps in jest. Anyway, fyi, about 15 million people travel EVERY DAY by train out here. That's the number which fly in a WHOLE YEAR. So you want our airlines to replace the railways that too at Rs 1 fares? Even in the U.S. maybe only one or two million fly each day. Also regarding the employment factor, I read recently that there are 4.5 million military servicemen (i.e.including retirees). I wonder what the comparable figure for railways is. As for "uniting the country" what do you think of the work our film industry has been doing? Cheers.
