night train from calcutta

interesting indian man on the night train who was into classic British cars and lamented the decline of the British motor industry. Also he ranted a while on how the world needed to run on some fusion of capitalism and communism, and that the young indians of today measured their worth in the number of stupid possessions that they accumulated, such as cellular telephones. [at that point, I took my cellular telephone out of my pocket and entered into an SMS conversation with a young indian in Calcutta] Also talked about Skodas, how anyone could elect a monkey like bush, subsidisation of foreign weapons by US and UK governments for the purpose of supporting their own arms industry. Was interesting.