By Joanna Slater and Tania Dutta, The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle; April 15, 2020
NEW DELHI – The main train station in the north Indian city of Varanasi is a sprawling building that has witnessed its share of delays over more than a century of rail travel. Sometimes the waits are long, and sometimes they are pleasantly short. But it has never seen anything like this.
Inside a high-ceilinged room, a group of travelers from across India has waited in vain for more than three weeks for trains that never come.