‘Mail, Express, Passenger’, all these word were familiar to me, but I was surprised to see them in Mananthavady, a small hamlet, close to Karnataka – Kerala border. I never knew that Mananthavady had a railway station. However, I asked the fellow who uttered these words to me. I was supposed to travel from Mananthavady to Thalassery. ‘Where is the railway station’, I asked him ‘No station here, get a ‘mail’ or ‘express’ to Thalassery’, he replied This was when the mystery popped up. Finally, I went past him and got an ‘auto’ to go to the railway station. ‘Railway Station?’ I asked ‘What? New here?’ The auto guy replied ‘I need to catch an express to Thalassery’, was my counter reply. ‘Oh, get in’, he asked After 10 minutes he dropped me at the bus
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