ABSTRACT
Bhaiya Express is the name of a short story written by Arun Prakash about the migration of labourers, who are also called bhaiya in the place where they migrate. This chapter takes 'bhaiya express' as the metaphor for trains that convey migrants. Migration from these places is at its peak between April and July and between October and January. During these months all day and night, there is a great deal of commotion at the railway stations. The migrants, with their bundles containing wheat bread, powdered pulse, flat rice and savouries, a water container and a small bundle of clothes, wait on the platforms for the trains. There are many remote villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar that saw the migration of able-bodied men to foreign lands during the colonial period. This tradition is still continuing, and even today migration of males from villages of this region to other places inside India is the rule rather than the exception.
