Chronicles of an Indian bus-hopper
” Missed tatkal train reservation. Book a bus ticket. ” This is the advertisement catchphrase used by the popular online bus ticketing service Redbus . But what happens when one has a tatkal reservation and misses the train instead? And what if the distance we are talking about is nearly 3000 km? You might have seen the Tempo traveller on Indian roads, with the Tourist nameplate on the front and the Traveller labelled on the side. That’s just because the vehicle has got a Tourist permit and the brand-name of the vehicle is Traveller. What got me thinking in this direction was the ride that I had taken across India; the difference between a ‘Tourist’ and a ‘Traveller’? If the above infographic blunts a thousand words, I realized it through experience. When I had decided to go on a solo back-packing trip across North India for a few weeks, though I did no meticulous planning or booking of sorts, I had thought out a probable itinerary for the weeks to ...
