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'Kavach Would Have Prevented This Accident'

'The Railways decided to go for kavach three years back, but the progress has been very slow.' IMAGE: A goods train hit the Kanchanjunga Express travelling from Silchar, Assam, to Sealdah, West......

'Railways is known for covering up accidents'

'Imagine what will happen when a train running at 128 kmph moves onto a track that is meant to have only a speed less than 30 kmph!''Naturally, it will derail, and the coaches will go for a......

'Real tragedy is the attitude of railways to people'

'The accident happened because the railway track was at the same level as the ground so the people walked over it.' IMAGE: Friends and families rushed to the accident site to look for their near......

Railways and a recipe for disaster

The twin-train derailments within minutes of each other that killed 25 people in Madhya Pradesh on August 5, 2015, is being blamed on flash floods. S Pushpavanam wonders if that is the only reason.......

It is time Delhi's protesters went home

The protest against the gang rape itself is not bad. But to provoke the police, to disobey the law and to insist on protesting wherever they want, whenever they want and however they want is not......

How Indian Railways fools India

Taking advantage of the indifference of passengers, the Indian Railways routinely indulges in several unfair trade practices, says S Pushpavanam. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters The Indian......

Can Suresh Prabhu take on the Railway Bureaucracy?

Ministers may come and ministers may go but the attitude of the RB remains the same forever, and it is this group that really calls the shots in Indian Railways, says S Pushpavanam. The rhetoric......

A wish-list for the Railway Budget

That the financial health of Indian Railways is precarious, is well-known. In his second Budget, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu must bite the bullet and attempt brave stuff, says S Pushpavanam.......

A white elephant called the Bullet train

The Bullet train is a childish desire of the government to join an elite club at the cost of 99.9 per cent of rail passengers, says S Pushpavanam. Image: Japan's bullet train, or the shinkansen,......

Why we must welcome FDI in retail

It is a myth that FDI in retail will kill at local kirana stores, instead it will help us immensely, says S Pushpavanam. Foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail has been permitted whether......

Review: Saguni's music is pretty ordinary

Pavithra Srinivasan says Saguni's music is run-of-the-mill and has nothing new to offer. So far, career-wise, Karthi has been ticking all the right boxes and Dream Warrior Pictures' Saguni seems to......

Music review: Santhosh Subramaniyam

Santhosh Subramaniyam is another addition to Raja's remakes, which marks the coming together of the successful sibling duo director M Raja and actor 'Jeyam' Ravi. The film is the Tamil remake of......

Impressive debut from Rahman's nephew

Composer G V Prakash Kumar's mama also happens to be a music director. His name is A R Rahman. It is to Prakash Kumar's credit that he manages to have something to show for himself beyond his......

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