A crowd jockeying to board a carriage. A cart of chickens being wheeled by. Someone buying a bottle of Rail Neer. The very confident-sounding DING DING DONG of the loudspeaker as an announcement is made in a robotic female voice. People passing this way and that, carrying odds and ends. Occasionally, someone urinates on the tracks.
Benches are scare, so public seating is improvised. Passengers and their families sit on blankets spread about the platform, many sleeping. I hope they don’t miss their departures.
This is Old Delhi Station.
Old Delhi Train Station (by Anthony Albright)
