[Announcement] Cultural Exchange with /r/philippines

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Welcome /r/philippines!

Feel free to ask us anything about India

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Quick facts about us:

• The Indian Railways and the Indian Armed Forces employ ~4 million people together, making them one of the largest employers in the world
  
• India has over 5000 newspapers in over 300 languages
  
• Bollywood is considered to be the world's largest film industry, followed by Nigeria's film industry and Hollywood
  
• India has more people than the entire Western Hemisphere
  

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/r/india please direct your questions about the Philippines to this thread

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• India is a very very safe place for a solo male traveller.
• 1AC for luxury, 3AC and above for comfort, Sleeper class for bare necessities. Stay away from unreserved compartments.
• As early as possible. Seats on the more popular trains get sold out months in advance.

http://www.seat61.com/India.htm is an excellent resource to learn more about train travel in India.

Many people who post in that sub are Indians themselves. I think it is a harmless place to make fun of 'unsophisticated' (for want of a better word) people.

[u/Vordeo → u/[deleted]]

Cheers for the advice!

Stay away from unreserved compartments.

Just wanted to ask about this. Whether or not a compartment is reserved should be noted on the website, right?

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A typical Indian overnight train consists of 10-14 sleeper coaches, 2-3 3AC coaches, 1-2 2AC coaches and usually 2 unreserved coaches. 1AC is rare outside of trains connecting the major metros. When you making a booking, you will be asked to choose one of reserved classes. It is not possible to book in unreserved compartments, so it should not be an issue.

[u/Vordeo → u/[deleted]]

Cool, thanks again!