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Regular travel, irregular circumstances

 I prefer traveling in train over bus and car, for it has washroom in it. I usually travel in train. Traveling in train 🚉 has become a routine for me. Everything is pre-planned. I plan every minute as to how I spend my time. If it's night journey not much planning is needed. Just food, bedsheet and pillow. If it's a day journey, elaborate planning is needed to make the most out of the Journey. If going to new places plan is simple, Lookout the window for beautiful unexplored places, capture pictures, Share photos on social media and talk to co-passengers. While traveling to familiar places it becomes monotonous. Hence, detailed planning is required. Plan is set in motion on the basis of number of hours ⏳ to travel. Binge watching, listening to music, reading a book 📙 or writing the blog. If the Journey is long, say for 2 days all of the above activities can be accommodated. I was traveling from my native to Bangalore. Since the Journey was familiar. I had planned on binge wat

SMILE IN TRAIN 2.0 (An astonishing filmy journey)

India is famous for three things all over the world. It’s Spicy cuisine, Cultural and ethnic diversity, and Bollywood. Bollywood is in our DNA by default. Every person in India is influenced by cinema one or the other way. Javed Aktar once said, “At some stage in life every Indian must have dreamt of working in Cinema”. I absolutely agree with this. Do you? We love  ❤️  our Cinema. Be it Romcom movies of the North or action packed movies of the South. Soulful music of the East or exquisite dance of the West. We just love cinema because they sell to us our dreams and fantasy’s.             Bollywood and Trains have this intimate connection. I was travelling from South India all the way to north India in train. As I boarded Sampark Kranti Express, which is as fast as Rajdani Express. All sorts of memories of Bollywood movies in connection to train start flashing in my mind in a loop.  It all began with memory of Chaiyya Chaiyya song, followed by scene of DDLJ especi