One hurdle: the US’ well-known automobile fixation, which some Americans connect to notions of freedom. Another: railways don’t really retain much glamour in the American public imagination. Also: it’ll require cooperation between federal and local governments that’s as difficult there as it is in India. But Obama sold the idea with the elan of a Kennedy selling America on the moon. (“Make no little plans,” he said.) His deputy — called “Amtrak Joe” for his love of trains — added even more emotional depth. In India, we’ve already got a unified rail structure and a cultural closeness to trains. Perhaps its time the railway ministry was gifted a bit of stimulus-vision.
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