Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Journeying through the Indian railways in around India in 80 trains (2012) by monisha rajesh and chai, chai: Travels in places where you stop but get never off (2009) by bishwanath ghosh Subject The topic of the resource Indian trains; Liminality; Polyphony; Secularism; Travelogue Description An account of the resource An Indian train is a space that exemplifies a true sense of transient cultural pattern as it travels through different states of India constantly assimilating people of diverse cultures. In this liminal space, a passenger travels from known to unknown in terms of geography, culture, language, cuisine, sartorial configuration and psychological makeup. Indian Railways offers an insightful analysis of cohabitation - the conflict and the coexistence of people amidst cultural differences.An Indian train is an exemplar of an accurate secular structure, blurring the lines of discrepancies based on religion, caste, gender, sex and sexuality. Prejudices that are evident in spaces relatively marked by certain spatial permanence dilute in a train. A provisional spatial arrangement of a train therefore questions the idea of tolerance and intolerance compared to that of permanent arrangement. As the Indian train incorporates people of all ages and territories, the train is a specimen of the concept of Bakhtinian polyphony, wherein the dialogues occurring between passengers represent varied consciousness. Thus, a train travelogue encompasses unmerged voices, each carrying a unique conscious design. The people travelling in an Indian train are separated on one single ground: economy. Therefore, economic factor becomes an overarching pattern of base to assign a certain culture in a superstructure to each class and each offers a unique perspective to the travelogue. This paper will analyze the trope of the train in two Indian travelogues based on culture, Marxist economic structure, Bakhtinian concept of polyphony, secularism and the idea of tolerance. AesthetixMS 2020. This Open Access article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For citation use the DOI. For commercial re-use, please contact editor@rupkatha.com. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dubey S. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol-12, No. 3, pp. 320-328. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Aesthetics Media Services Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.21659/RUPKATHA.V12N3.38" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.21659/RUPKATHA.V12N3.38</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85090472621&amp;doi=10.21659%2FRUPKATHA.V12N3.38&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=abc7cf51cd17723e00618ef50b488475" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85090472621&amp;doi=10.21659%2fRUPKATHA.V12N3.38&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=abc7cf51cd17723e00618ef50b488475</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Gold Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 9752935 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dubey S., CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR, India