Chapter 1 - The night train at deoli

When I was at college i used to spend my summer vacations in dehra ,at my grandmother place.i would leave the plains early in May and return late in beginning of the heavy jungles of the Indian terai.the train would reach Delhi at about five in the morning when the station would be dimly lit with electric bulbs and oil lamp and the jungle across the railway tracks would just be visible in the faint light of dawn.