"[This book] is an intimate and humourous portrait of life on the trains, evoking the very soul of India with ... empathy and insight which illustrates the lives of those who ride them, work on them, and live alongside them. ... Yet as a nation steadily modernises these railways... [the book] records a way of life that is slowly fading and documents the diversity of this vast and multi-layered country from a unique standpoint."--Book jacket.