A JOURNEY BY TRAIN
v Points: Introduction – Arrival at the Karachi City Station – Scene on the
platform – Affairs inside the compartment – stables and beggars at every
station – Hot winds and pleasant scenery – Conclusion.
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v A train journey is a common experience. Still, it is a wonderful
experience. The people we meet during a train journey are of some many kinds
that every train journey becomes a unique one.
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v I, with some of my friends, made a long journey once from Karachi
to Lahore. We had booked our seats a day earlier than we started. We were well
advised in doing so, for when we reached the Karachi city station, we found the
booking office surrounded by a huge crowd of passengers. I think it would have
been impossible for us to secure a ticket there in time to catch the train.
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v We went to the platform, where the train was to arrive. There too
we found a big crowd of people waiting for the train. It was a colourful crowd.
When the train arrived we managed to get to our seats. Ours was to be a long
journey and we had to make ourselves as comfortable as possible. At last the
guard waved a green flag. The engine whistled and the train began to move
slowly. Out of station yard it gained a good speed.
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v When the train was in motion, I had an opportunity of taking note
of the other passengers in the compartment. One of them was an old and
evidently pious man. He was telling a young man the benefits the religion had
conferred upon mankind. I too listened to the discussion with rapt attention.
There was an up-to-date couple who looked at everybody with contempt. They
considered themselves superior to every body around. Here was also a gentleman
with his wife. She sat huddled with her four children. It was difficult for her
to control them. There were people from different corners of the country in our
compartment. The Pakhtoons were talking in Pushto, while some villagers from
the interior of the Punjab were talking in Punjabi. Another young man was
talking with his companions in
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v chaste Sindhi. We were not long without an amusement. Some of the
passengers now began to sing by turns. Thank God the rush of the passengers was
not very great.
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v At every station the train stopped. There came the hawkers with
various articles of food. The eatables they sold were so badly exposed that one
would never think of eating the stuff, if one cared for* the laws of health at
all. Besides the hawkers, there always came endless number of beggars. There
were all kinds ‘of beggars; cripples, blind-men, healthy fellows, old and
young, men and women. Some sang, some played on musical instruments, some
whined, some cried aloud all wanted alms.
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v When we were passing through the desert of Sind, it was quite
suffocating because of the hot winds blowing from the desert. When the train
reached the plains of the Punjab, we felt the joy of travelling. I had a good
chance of enjoying everything out. Now we passed by green fields, canals and
rivers and beautiful scenery.
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v After a long and enjoyable journey, all of us were happy to reach
Lahore. We were also happy to be in the midst of our friends and relatives.
