Trains always took her a journey, not only to the destination but also another journey out of the world of realities into a fantasy of her own where she was the princess, where she was sitting on the plush soft seats in the AC compartment, where at her beck and call the staff of the pantry brought her endless amounts of the delicacies that suited her mood.
But now, the princess had to get ready, hoist her younger brother onto her hips and take him along-with her to all the passengers in the cabin. If they were lucky, their begging would yield enough money to give them two meals for the day.
Written for the #AtoZChallenge where throughout the 26 days of April (excluding the 4 Sundays), bloggers world-wide are writing based on the 26 letters of the English alphabet.
The story for today is based on the letter T where Leo and I have chosen to write stories around the word Train.
Meena is crazy abt train journeys while I prefer driving 🙂
PhenoMenon
http://throodalookingglass.com/2014/04/succulent-ribs/
I love travel – cars, trains, buses.. however 😀
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Oh my! Short and crisp with a twist. Lots of emotions rolled into that little post. Lovely. Am blog hopping from the A-Z challenge. Good luck with the rest of the challenge!!!
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Now that is sad to watch children beg, I wish and hope no child has to go through that ..
I love train journey’s though .. remember school times holidays going all the way from chandigarh to Kolkata .. 4 days it took then 🙂
Bikram
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4 days in train must have been fun na 🙂
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N here i was hoping for a train journey n its charms :-/
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Why? because you love train journeys?
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This is sad 🙁 I can imagine her with the kid now. We see many such princesses on our journeys, but not many of us see the pain in their eyes !
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True Sreeja.. many times we see yet don’t see 🙁
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Heart-breaking really – especially since it’s so true!
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I know Corinne… every time I see something like this, my heart breaks
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The sad truth in most Indian trains and it only gets progressively worse, unfortunately.
True Shailaja 🙁
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yesssssssssss 🙂 some of the best travel times I have had