Satyajit Ray's Horror Story "First-class Compartment" | Indian Railways Special | Bilateral View #4

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[@busybeenj]

I have never been a fan of ghost stories, but there is something about this one that I really like. Hi Doc. Magan, good to hear you again with Prof 😊

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[@markjoreezcatubig3973]

Satyajit Ray's story, in an allegorical sense, bears a striking resemblance to an African poem I recently read. Denis Brutus' Train Journey delves into the stark contrast between rampant poverty and industrial progress in Africa, where the development of railroads and trains symbolizes not just economic advancement but also the deep socioeconomic upheaval it brings. The poem vividly describes extreme poverty, with imagery of children suffering from famine, their bodies wasted by hunger. In a broader sense, the railroads take on a psychological dimension, "conjuring" apparitions or ghosts-perhaps the lingering presence of colonizers, continuing to exert their influence, or the ghost of abundance and a world where scarcity is nonexistent. These ghosts, whether real or merely symbolic, haunt the mind, serving as powerful representations of both hope and despair.

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[@TheRealDstein]

My favorite train story of spacetime is in Albert Einstein’s book on Relativity explaining how light is different than matter by describing two people sitting across from each other on a train, and if a device on a table between them filled with water and programmed to shoot in both directions, it will hit the person facing the front of the train first because they are moving towards where the water has been released, however, light is different because if that same machine releases light at both passengers, it reaches both passengers simultaneously. Einstein himself is writing about this because of the problems of coordinating the clocks of Europe now that trains were moving between countries and not everyone could watch the ball fall from the top of the Greenwich Observatory, and even the question of how a bolt of lightning is perceived by people traveling on those trains raises even more questions for relativity to solve.

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[@OptimalPrime-r1o]

This train-ghost discussion should have considered the deliberately concocted spectre meet-up for Indic detoxification.

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[@MaritesMamac]

In countries where railways have become spectres of the past, how are its residents supposed to appreciate the utilitarian appeal of the train in creating colonialistic realizations among them (the colonized), who until now have continuously grappled with the ideology of belonging?