Every type of Indian food is available - the good, the bad and the ugly. And if you're worried about eating too much, back in the station there are four free 'check your weight' machines. Where you stand on the platform reflects your social position. Under-employed headloders stand around the same area waiting to make their mad dash for the incoming trains. They dive on, fight their way through passengers trying to get off, in an attempt to convince the same people they have trampled on to pay them to carry their bags out of the station.
Soldiers carrying guns stand around as though battle is about to commence.
India has 1.5million men and women who carry arms. The soldiers all seem to carry ancient British Lee Enfield rifles and even Second World War Bren-guns. Dozens of 'no spitting' and 'no spitting zone' signs line the platform A group of Muslims are locked in deep conversation. Though this is an unashamedly Hindu country there are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan, making up about 11 percent of the Indian population. The Muezzin cry from the Mosque can be heard in most Indian cities.