The superfast double-decker train running between Delhi and Jaipur is new and posh. It leaves Delhi from Sarai Rohilla, one of the smaller stations being developed by the railways to take the load off New Delhi and Delhi stations.

And Sarai Rohilla remains in the 1950s, be it the approach road, where you get off, or the path you have to trudge to enter the station.

All that belongs to today is that the approach is totally clogged by private cars, many new and flashy. A ditch, a damaged road surface where you can easily trip and stumble, and the dust in the air assail you as you arrive and move forward.