I don't think I was mud slinging. I was pointing out the disparity between where India is and where it wants to be. I think the train situation is relevant to that and hence it seemed apt to bring it up in this topic. Apologies if it offended you. I guess my point was that India need to do something to stop the ridiculousness that is seen everyday on it's railways.

Perhaps I'm getting carried having just finished reading Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger". I now see myself as an expert on everything that's wrong with India :)