Around India In 80 Trains

What's the journey all about?

One rainy day at work, Monisha read an article detailing how the boom in India's domestic airlines could now connect 80 cities - impressive but not exactly eco-friendly. Having lived in India briefly as a child, Monisha had always planned to go back and see the country properly. Taking a leaf out of Jules Verne's classic tale, she decided that the best way to visit was by travelling around India by train, and to write a book herself.

And as the largest civilian employer in the world, featuring luxury trains, toy trains, a hospital on wheels, the world's steepest, slowest, and second longest train journeys, the Indian railways would have a few tales to tell...

Around India in 80 Trains is published by Roli Books in India, and by Nicholas Brealey in the UK and the US.