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Article: Dream Run.
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- India Today Travel Plus
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Byline: Dilip D'Souza
With hills to the east, the sea to the west, and palm and paddy all the way, the scenic beauty along the coast of Kerala and Karnataka can be best discovered through a journey on the Konkan Railway. By Dilip D'Souza
At Panvel station, where my train stops on its clickety-clackety path south, there are three poles near one end of the platform. By the light of a solitary bulb, I see that one has a sign that's bent and twisted. As if someone has been bashing it purposefully. The sign says "Please Be in Que". I imagine someone got sick of being in Que and wanted to get out. Or perhaps what he really wanted was to be in queue. And to ...