India, March 22 -- By Dr. K. Javed Nayeem, MD

There are so many memories of my travels by train that it is a very difficult task to decide which ones to talk about and which ones to leave out. But here are a couple of them which my readers might find interesting.

As it happens in the lives of most boys, I too passed through a stage when I dreamt of being a railway engine driver, a dream, that thankfully did not materialise. This urge was perhaps a little stronger in my case because I had the occasion to travel a lot by trains right from the days of my early childhood, as I have said earlier.

It was reinforced greatly, maybe because I had a music teacher, Dorothy Fernandez, in the Good Shepherd Convent, whose husband, Edward Fernandez w...