Book by K V Chidambaram Real life incidents fictionalized and fictional world realized is what one observes while travelling on thetracks of a decagonal story train. Train travel in India, its triumphs and tribulations coalesce through each of thestories relating the incidents and experience to its citizens. It also gives an impression of what kind of train travel it used to be in the 20th Century and to what it hastransformed into in the 21st. Some stories weaving the contributions of the colonial past and somemetamorphosed into the contemporary setting. The hazards related to train travel is also touched upon to ensure safe journey and upholding the importance of having civic sense and taking care of the national property, the life-line train.