Safe rail travel
The maxim goes, “Speed thrills but kills” (Editorial, “Tragic track”, June 6). The obsession with speed and development at all costs leads to tragedies. No amount of inquiry will bring back those we have lost. There is a story that there was once a team of officials from the erstwhile Soviet Union conducting a survey on the functioning of the Indian Railways. Their report had the line, “Now, we also believe in the existence of god”. A developing country such as India does not need Bullet or state-of-the-art trains, but trains that ensure safe journeys.
C.G. Kuriakose,
