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    5) In every Indian train station, at all hours of the night, people can be found sleeping on the ground. Some are waiting for trains, others come to sell goods or to beg. Some come simply for the security of the light. At times you may even spot a wandering Hindu holy man, seated on a newspaper, observing the commotion. by: djoshuajennings Views[310] On Indian trains, the window is often seen as a trash bin, and the open-chute train toilets drop sewage directly onto the speeding tracks below. The result is thousands of miles of sewage-covered rails, with fields of paper and plastic on either side of the track. Here, at a station near Mysore, women with straw hand-brooms sweep the littered rails. by: djoshuajennings Views[674] Inside ‘Sleeper Class’, around midnight, somewhere between Rishikesh and Varanasi. The fans were roaring, the car was shaking and you could hear the wheels squealing through the open windows. With two or three people to a bed, the overcrowded car remained loud and busy much of the night. by: djoshuajennings Views[927] Approaching Kolkata the train traffic was backed up for miles, so we rolled into the sprawling metropolis slowly, alongside other trains. Here a man was leaning out the open berth door, waiting to jump off. by: djoshuajennings Views[206] Between 2012 and 2014 I logged more than 300 hours traveling on the Indian Railways, riding in every class and sometimes sleeping near the toilets in the connector joints when I couldn’t get a ticket. This is 3am in Chennai. I stepped off the train and spotted these two women looking out of the Ladies Only compartment. by: djoshuajennings Views[195]
     

    Photos: My Scholarship entry - Somewhere on the Indian Railways

    Sunday, 23 Nov 2014 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

    I bought my first camera when I began traveling, at age 20. Before that, I’d taken few pictures. I traveled alone, and to cure my loneliness I took pictures. I traveled for the next nine years. Along the way I taught myself different techniques – mostly ... Read more >
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