Eat-Sleep-Railfanning 🔄 Repeat - Shankar Mehani

The actual truth has come about Indian Railways:
"The deadly derailment of two trains in Madhya Pradesh presents the sorry dichotomy that marks India’s rail ambitions: the inability to run a safe, dependable and comfortable railway system on the one hand, and aspirations to move to flashy bullet trains on the other.Though the minister of state for railways said it was an act of nature many questions are being asked, one of them being whether the tragedy was manmade. Indian Railways does not have a good track record with regard to maintenance. Nothing much seems to have changed on this score since the new government came in; there has been more talk of wi-fi and five-star packaged food and other such amenities....
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Some of the people interviewed at the site said the government focuses only on trains like the Shatabdi and Rajdhani, patronised by the well-off, and “leaves the others to God”. If there is any truth in this, the rail minister should change this perception. Till then we have to wait to know, especially about when these particular tracks were last examined."
Please note the following line carefully:
"The inability to run a safe, dependable and comfortable railway system on the one hand, and aspirations to move to flashy bullet trains on the other"
So, IR is now making a mess, about the two objectives as discussed above.