From the first passenger train in 1853 to first electric train in 1925, revisiting the 168-year-old legacy of Indian Railways
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The Taj Mahal may be India’s most iconic monument, but it’s just one of many of the country’s significant buildings.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Sangath Design Studio
Balkrishna Doshi, the first Indian architect to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, is a name synonymous with invigorating the contemporary Indian architectural landscape. He created Sangath, his design studio and research center in Ahmedabad, as an expression of his design principles and observations. The unique aspect of the studio is that it also accommodates facilities for the neighborhood.
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A striking and rare discovery - this is a 1911 Waterlow and Company chromolithograph promotional broadside issued to promote the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR), Asia s first and greatest railroad. Boldly promoting the GIPR s expansive sub-continent wide rail network, this map was designed for display in railroad stations throughout India. The map covers the entire subcontinent, with GIPR trunk lines highlighted in red and subsidiary lines via a keyed network of symbols. In the lower right, a large inset of Bombay promotes GIPR services within the network s nucleus. In the lower-left, a finely executed vignette illustrates a GIPR train leaving Bombay s Victoria Terminus (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus), with theIconic Mumbai Municipal Corporation Building (MMCB) recognizable in the background.
Why Mumbai’s lifeline the local train must take a bow © Nachiket Deuskar Why Mumbai’s lifeline the local train must take a bow
On February 1, the general public was finally allowed to travel aboard Mumbai s suburban railway services during certain time slots. The first two days saw the return of Mumbai’s “rush hour”, but this time with some emotional scenes. These emotions were captured in a photo that has gone viral on social media, showing a man bowing to the train as services resumed.
At midnight on March 22, 2020, all of Mumbai’s suburban train services had come to a screeching halt as the country prepared for what would be a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19. For most people living in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), suspension of local trains at this scale was unthinkable even a few weeks before that day.
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