DesiTraveller

  It is not unknown for differential pricing to be used as a means of ensuring that resident Citizens are not charged for subsidised benefits used by Foreigners. A huge example is public transport, which globally is subsidised for Citizens as a larger social benefit, but in India especially in context with road transport is often used as a revenue generator. To start with, I simply do not understand why Foreigners pay the same train fare as Indians, in India, on Indian Railways, and why they should not be charged double, or even more -- as is often the case in many parts of Europe when you look at train fares online. Most certainly the British, at the very least, should be made to pay a huge surcharge if they use our train, for all the money they took out of India. Especially if they continue to go on yapping about the misbegotten "glories" of the Raj. We were their slaves, as the movie RRR has shown so well, and it is now time for them to start paying back. All 47 trillion d...

  Very recently, I applied for a United Kingdoms tourist short-stay visa, was not supposed to be a big thing since I have been in and out of pretty much all of UK / Great Britain / Wales / Scotland / Ireland North and not North / Hong Kong and a few of the British Territories / Commonwealth / Tax Havens also. Every time there were options to stay back; every time there were good reasons for not wanting to stay back. At the same time, travel abroad does open ones eyes, and if one is observant as well as looking for the Truth - then there is so much history as well as science in travel. For me, navigation and astronomy were and still are important, as well as patterns in civil construction in older Houses of Religion which appear to be like open source repositories. For the curious. And that I am. Asking questions at the risk of sounding foolish? No issues. So anyways, by the time I submitted my UK Visa, and then applied to get my passport back, a lot of time had elapsed, almost two ...