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Passengers wait with their luggage at the platform, checking and rearranging their belongings as they prepare for departure. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Dharmendar Kumar sits in the overcrowded general coach. Above him, others lie on luggage racks, a common sight on Indian trains where space is a luxury few can afford. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Young men look out from the crowded train window after just boarding, their faces tired, sitting packed inside the general coach. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Carrying sacks of goods on their shoulders, labourers at the New Delhi Railway yard push through the strain. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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26 years old Suresh says how living in the big city has become unbearably expensive. The LPG crisis has forced him to go back to his hometown in Bihar and try his luck with farming. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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A family balances their entire life on their backs — sacks, bags, and children in tow — as they make their way through the station. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Exhausted and Tired: Nandini, Kamal and Priyanka (from right) rest by the roadside with their heavy bags, waiting for their mother who's gone to fetch tickets for the family. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
