Well u have to go through this and only then will u be able to actually differentiate between travelling on a normal route and in silchar-guwahati route....for those who spend 4000 rs or so on flights will not understand how it feels to go through this hell.....
first i will tell u about the bus route...at first the road..well it starts normally from guwahati(if u r starting your journey from guwahati)....then u get some potholes on the road which are bearable....after that the potholes suddenly become bigger as if some dinosaur stamped on the road and when u come nearer to assam(wen u r nearing the end of meghalaya),i bet u won't be able to find a single second without jumping in the air bcoz the road is by far the worst in the world i guess....actually after coming here i have come to know that road can be made of only two things....sand and stones...just put the sand and throw stones over it and your road is made....after u reached silchar u will surely find one of ur bones having a crack(if u r lacking in calcium)...add to that the buses....if u lucky to have a good bus of capital or network,its ok.....but somehow if u land in royals or jagannath,u r in for a hell of a ride....the buses leak so much that if u r not carrying an umbrella or wearing a raincoat,u might suffer from pneumonia after a few days....and if ur bus is old,ahahahahaha,you r gone baby....add to that the time factor....u r not sure when u would reach,it may take anything ranging from 14 to 40 hours..plus the fact that most buses damage on the route itself and even run out of fuel make it worse..for those of who have a connecting train or something,plzzzz have at least 50 hours of gap between the two journeys....
Now to the train journey and by far my most favourite journey....This is one journey which could have been completed in 8 hrs if our Netas and Babus were not so efficient in their work(or should i say the lack of it).....but bcoz of their efficiency we still now don't have a direct route from silchar to guwahati....it is much more comfortable even though we have to board a connecting train but the problem is that you are never sure whether the train would run at all.....and this is because of landslide,dacoits but most importantly,some mad people living in the hills who have no other work other than torturing the workers who make the railway tracks and also pelt stones at the trains and thus to disrupt the country's development.....the reality that many people don't know is that the bus networks,mainly the private companies like capital,network pay these people so that they don't allow the workers to build the broad gauge track,because then their company would be shut down....after all who would want a treacherous,time consuming,bone breaking,expensive journey when you have a cheaper,comfortable option.....
