The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

[Fiction]

On 26TH January, 2010, every state of India paraded its best to the nation. Maharashtra presented the much celebrated dubba wallas who travel in sweat and danger on (in, over) local trains. Who ensure that the food reaches the Mumbai residents on time. These men, marked for their punctuality and honesty, live in a state that sees farmers dying in Vidarbha.

Among the celebratory troops of states were men, or at least one, who wondered if the salutes of the …