But these protests were remarkable precisely for their rarity.Perhaps it is fitting, then, that this grim train journey came after a day spent conducting interviews about Brazil's controversial efforts to quash hyperinflation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
I was still recovering from the journey that had brought me to Rajasthan from central India -- a trip that, at its most Dante-esque moment, found me in New Delhi's grim central train station at 4 in the morning.
A grim, dreadful train crush of a journey more reminiscent of a silent, polite rugby maul.
The final images of Mr. Hashmi and Ms. Balan in a grim fluorescent-lighted train car feel like a genuinely open-ended consideration of the movie's themes of love and trust.
For years I asked myself: have I come to terms with the rainy sky, the everlasting winter, the grim and expensive train system, pie and mash, tea-less teabags?
It is the grim paradox of all training for war: unless you are actually risking your life in battle, it is not real.
"US advisers working with the Iraqi army as consistently grim, while arming and training an effective national guard of supposedly Sunni fighters in western Iraq will take months to achieve".
Still, even the more realistic figures for "NEETs" (young people not in employment, education or training) are pretty grim.
John Howson, a former government adviser on teacher recruitment, describes the teacher training figures as "grim", and warns that the booming school-age population means the problem is only going to get worse.
The rest sleep outside, a few hundred metres from a grim row of burnt-out trains and factory chimneys.
