For Malayalis in Bengaluru, travelling to their home towns in north Kerala for Onam celebrations continues to be an ordeal.
A large majority of Keralites in the Karnataka capital are from Kannur, Kozhikode, Malappuram, and Palakkad districts. Tickets are, as usual, not available in the Yeshwantpur-Kannur Express, the only daily train service to this part of the State, and the Southern Railway has not announced any special train so far. Finding seats in buses run by the Kerala State Road Transport Service Corporation (KSRTC) is near impossible.
The other daily train, Bengluru City-Mangaluru-Kannur Express, travels via Yeshwantpur, Hassan, and Mangaluru and is not convenient for those who come to places such as Kozhikode, Tirur, and Shornur.
