Train journey always excites me and brings out the kid in me; the green fields, rivers, hillocks, small stations to big junctions, red and black soils, the chambal ghatti, the music train produces....the route of tamilnadu express always fascinated me so much so i remained awake to see river krishna around 1am after vijayawada. The narmada river just before bhopal and the tunnel section between bhopal-itarsi happen to be my favorites. Over the years we adopted the bangalore route for to & fro and literally gave up the tamilnadu line. It was almost after a decade that i was back on the line but this time on different train and time setting; however the madurai sampark kranti just got delayed to enable me to cover the river krishna, river narmada and tunnel section; this time i felt that forest in the tunnel section had dwindled and was not spectacular as it used to be - the awe perhaps has diminished little bit (grown-up effect).
