Hailing from a middle class family, parents at times insisted that we travel via sleeper class. The intention was to keep us grounded to the grass roots and also experience various life styles. This practice however started reducing when we were sent off for our higher studies abd then for our professional pursuits. Being my usual self, I wanted to re-experience the difference in both the classes and I deliberately opted for 1 way journey in sleeper class.
The biggest difference which I found was that travellers in AC coaches who focus on PR building and networking fail to exhibit any characteristic related to this. The PR building happens only at their income and professional levels. On the contrary travellers in sleeper class have no qualms in starting innocuous conversations, sharing food and mixing up. Other big difference is the abominable attitude and the manner in which AC travellers treat the travellers in Sleeper class. You continue to live privately showing off one’s superiority over another, spending time watching laptop/listening to music whereas sleeper coaches give you means to listen to other’s conversation and music collection. 1 experience which we continue to miss in AC coaches is the open air, the vendors of all sorts commuting throughout giving you chances to explore local delicacies and items. Such source of entertainment misses in AC coaches. The only thing which takes a back burner is the hygiene and cleanliness. What can be an added problem for the women folk with their different biological requirements is the type of people around who keep ogling at them throughout the journey.
I am neither trying to prescribe here 1 medium over another nor writing off any one of them. What we sometimes fail to appreciate is that most of us have evolved from there only. There are also cases where travel was urgent and tickets might not be available for a particular type of journey.
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