Sathyakama Sharma

  (An edited version of the article below was published in the Open Page section of The Hindu newspaper’s website on Sunday, the 15 th of September 2024.)                     Bus vs Train: A Litmus Test of Your Trait Frequent travelers, listen! As a mode of travel, which one would you prefer? Do you belong to a ‘Train-First’ category or a ‘Bus-First ʼ category?   If you reply glibly as ‘sometimes it’s buses, sometimes trains’, or ‘it all depends upon the situation’ and ‘as the case may be’; you are wrong! Deep down there’s a reason for you belonging to either of the two categories. Most of us are either bus travellers or train travellers, unaware of why we are predisposed so in the first place. Until recently I had been a Bus-First-One. My defining moment came the day I had been planning to travel from Mangalore to Bangalore, only by day bus. First, my cousin suggeste...