A train journey on the Indian Railways comes with its own set of problems and adventures. Many of us may complain about delays in departure time, or how dirty and unusable the toilets are, or that the food is bad.
But for a person bound to a wheelchair, these ‘adventures’ simply qualify as harassment.
Virali Modi is a motivational speaker, writer, model and a person with disability, living in Mumbai. She says she loves to travel. But her travels are punctured by unpleasant experiences of being deeply inconvenienced by poor facilities in the Indian Railways.