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On Bogie No. 8, 13 Up

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Bogie No.8, 13 Up Dr. Agha Inamullah Karachi to Jungshai since April 5th 2017 Acknowledgement: I offer my humble gratitude and a big Thank You to  the poor whose helplessness taught me patience. The old crippling routine beggars without a life, or precisely life without a choice whom I encountered on my routine daily journey. A hypo manic elderly who often smiled, and asked for  some money and then always came back with some sweets for me. His favorite was Baalu Shahi. A chat with an 85 years old retired government employed Mid wife who was travelling alone to visit her son in Rahim yar khan. An old beggar on crutches, with one bottle tied to each crutch; one containing water, and the other his medicine. The Shevadari (Priest) from the temple in Jhempir who taught me lessons on humanity qouting verses from Koran. The helpless elderly sleeping in corridors of Bogie, or leaning beside exit doors with no money to buy ticket. The shoe polishers, disabled newspaper hawke