Monisha Rajesh मोनीषा राजेश ,”Around India in 80 Trains”, 2012.

Om Lata Bahadur, “Hindu Festivals & Ceremonies “, 1997 was the topic of an earlier blog post. 

Here I present: Monisha Rajesh मोनीषा राजेश ,“Around India in 80 Trains”, 2012 which was a travelogue.

BELOW is the itinerary map of this travelogue; and, trains are numbered (#1 – #80).

 

An Indrail pass was a special railway pass available to foreign nationals created along the lines of the Eurail Pass for limited travel without reservation of a ticket on the Indian Railways network.  This ticket was available for a special time period from half a day to 90 days.

There are 21 chapters in the book. The “table of contents” of the book is shown BELOW.

Here I presented: Monisha Rajesh मोनीषा राजेश ,”Around India in 80 Trains”, 2012 which was nonfiction, travel writing.  The destinations of the numbered (#1 – #80) trains is shown BELOW.

ABOVE is a language map of India; and, Hindi, Bengali & Punjabi are among the ten (10) most spoken languages in the world.

BELOW is number of speakers for Marathi & Telugu as well as Hindi, Bengali & Punjabi.   India has a population of one & half billion (1,500,000,000) people.  One & half billion people speaking  all kinds of languages is India.

Monisha Rajesh मोनीषा राजेश ,“Around the World in 80 Trains”, 2019  was the sequel to the “Around India in 80 Trains”, 2012.

Priya Hemenway, “Hindu Gods: The Spirit of the Divine”, 2003 was the topic of an earlier blog post.