Rediscovering and reevaluating some old memories rather experiences is probably one of the most interesting things to do. After a substantially busy and constructive six months, which totally rearranges your perspective, you tend to reevaluate few things close to you in a different manner. This time when I was back in Assam, I decided to rediscover the old travel experiences I which I used to have during my childhood. Since my family migrated to Guwahati, most of our close relatives resided in small towns within some 200 km radius from the capital city. And this time, I decided to pay them a visit, in Shahrukh Khan’s Swadesh style. I decided to leave the luxury of taking a car and use the most basic level of transport available. Thus on 16 th March 2013, I was at the Guwahati Railway Station, with Bongaigaon as destination which happened to be 155 kilometers away. The train route covers almost all the small and medium sized railway stations of the Lower Assam, and also crosses...

The title might suggest that the post is about some adventurous traveler, who roams the world in a four wheeler exploring thousands of kilometers. Indeed, he travels thousands of kilometers, probably 36000 km a month, yet he is not adventurous traveler, and probably we would never imagine our lives to be like his. Life on the Wheels Meet Mr. Ram Kumar , the coach attendant of the Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express . Mr. Kumar, with just 4 holidays a month, travels all the way from New Delhi to Dibrugarh via Guwahati serving passengers and back. Again the same day he leaves for Jammu with another fleet of passengers and the cycle goes on. Four holidays is just like nothing, a resident of Bihar, it takes him 2 days to reach home from Delhi and unlike the so called posh Rajdhani where he serves; he boards a general sleeper class compartment to get back. Yet, he wears a badge saying ‘Serving with a smile’ and severs to every new face which he meets in his journey without any compla...