favorites

India’s first railway is disappearing bit by bit. Can we save what’s left?

A portion of the old Sion railway station, on the original Bombay-Thane line of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, is being dismantled.

Rajendra B Aklekar

Listen to this article: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway – the GIPR – is the railway that operated India’s first commercial passenger line...

Remembering Gillian Tindall, the British historian and author whose work The City of Gold brought Bombay’s history and soul to life