"Konkan Railway is a proud witness to the dedication and  immense engineering  skills that are available in India.  It has been built by thousands  of  people  -  engineers,  technicians  and  ordinary labourers   -  working  anonymously  in  the  deepest   wilderness, burrowing  tunnels  or building bridges that would change  the  sky line  and  life  style  for ever.  Their sweat  and  sacrifices  have converted a dream into reality..."

 "Future  generations will take Konkan Railway for granted.   They will  see  it only as another 760 Kms added to the  country's  rail network.   They  will never know what blood, sweat, toil,  struggle and sacrifices went into the construction of this Railway....."

                             E. Sreedharan 

 For the hotchpotch known as haggis
Let Scotchmen yearn or yell;
On the taste of Yorkshire pudding
Let the English  fondly dwell
Their famed tandoori chicken
Let Punjabis praise like hell
But for us who hail from Goa
There's naught like sorpotel!

And oh, for Christmas dinner

Don't you think it would be swell

If, thanks, to a freak of fortune

Or by some magic spell,

We could  as they can in Goa

Have a bottle of cajel

And toddy-leavened sannam

To go with sorpotel

         By Philip Furtado