*** Train No 6010. There was this article in HINDU in its magazine section on Sunday, June 5, titled “Train No 6010.” This train, Chennai-Mumbai Mail, leaves Chennai at 2155 hours daily. It reaches a small station en route called Hosigi, very near Karnataka-Andhra border, by 1000 AM next morning. The story starts at this station where a few women entered a sleeper coach with big baskets on their heads. Now, over to the author: “I felt myself besieged. How dare they get in? Did they have tickets? I did not know what to do. They would talk loudly, dirty the place, fight with the passengers.. I could picture a horrible scenario. The railways are doomed, I told myself, and so is the country.” “In the meanwhile, the old woman in a torn green sari sat on the floor and started to uncover her basket. Would she spread her bed sheet and lie down there? Would she take out her food and eat it, and mess up the place? How long would this group be on board? How long would one have to tolerate this?” ...