Just a quick observation...

This morning we checked out of our very loud hotel, Calcutta Lodge, and walked toward Seadlah station. The streets were in the usual morning throws--people getting their merchandise to their stalls and grown men washing themselves and their clothes in the gutter, ah India in the morn...

We entered the train station from the north side. There are huge open areas on all sides of the station for entry and exit. One metal detector is set for everyone to enter through, which not a single person was.

We entered the station and right away a tan-uniformed man gently placed his hand on my shoulder and I heard a beeping sound. He was passing a hand-held metal detector over my rucksack.

He then asked me to open my bag. I misunderstood and said, "What?". "Please Open your bag," the short, slight man gently said again. "Why?" I querried, knowing why.

My wife then intervened and told the man I had a camera in my rucksack and he wobbled his head and gestured us into the station. We continued to the cloak room to leave our bags for the day--we are on an over night train.

Since arriving in India a month ago and traveling by train everywhere we have gone, that has been the most security we have seen. That's a bombing for you.