Feeding the masses

My Scholarship entry - Somewhere on the Indian Railways

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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.

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.

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Feeding the masses

My Scholarship entry - Somewhere on the Indian Railways

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