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The #BulletTrain! 'Goli Gadi'! What a Train! Yes, it will be kept spic and s-'paan' - for ever and ever. It'll be the pride of Hindu Rashtra What fun - spitting the paan from a bullet train! See it shoot off like a rocket, almost like a brahmastra of yore! Travel like a bullet, spit like a rocket! Imagine that! What a train! Keep chewing paan and enjoy the trip! Accompanying cow will get fodder free. The cow can keep chewing the cud, while you chew the paan. Even the US with Potels galore doesn't have a bullet train, Sirji. And, don't forget, here in holy gau rashtra (cow-nation) accompanying cow gets a free ride! 🤣

Hastily putting together some of my scattered comments on the Bullet Train project into one single note. Bullet trains are not the kind of infrastructure India needs now. Incidentally, globally nobody wants these expensive bullet trains that are not economically feasible anywhere, including Japan. Reports note that nowhere in the world is a bullet train profitable on its own. To make it profitable, a company that runs it must also develop land around the train stations to make it work financially. India surely has the need for both fast and high-speed trains on a large number of routes across the country. Criticism of the bullet train does not mean a negation of that need. The ultra-high speed trains (bullet trains) that are not economically feasible do not fit into the kind of infrastructure development required. The bullet train will have to be subsidised for ever. Instead of such trains, by spending equivalent sums, taking loan from multilateral agencies if need be, there a...