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Why Increasing IRCTC’s Capacity Will Not Solve Anything

vadakkus13 years ago11 years ago38 mins

The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) runs a website that is allows people to book tickets on Indian Railways trains online using their debit or credit cards. Now, why a corporation that should be doing catering is running a ticket-booking website is another question altogether, but this question is rarely asked because there…

The Matrix Tatkal Anomaly and Missed Trains

vadakkus14 years ago11 years ago19 mins

The Universe works in uncanny ways and it has its own ways of setting things right to preserve the delicate equilibrium that governs us all. I got a taste of this the other day in Final Destination proportions of a Shakespearean tragedy, when a much-lauded ‘out-of-the-blue’ rare achievement of mine was ruthlessly cancelled out, the…