Kahani Pahilya Aagingadichi (Marathi, Paperback, AKLEKAR RAJENDRA)

Halt Station India Chronicles The Dramatic Rise Of India�S Original Rail Network, The Arrival Of The First Train, And The Subsequent Emergence Of A Pioneering Electric Line�All In The Port City Of Bombay. Trains That Once Provoked Awe And Fear�They Were Viewed As Fire Chariots, Smoke-Spewing Demons�Have Today Become A Nation�S Lifeblood. Taking A Walk Along India�S First Rail Lines, The Author Stumbles Upon Fragments Of The Past�A Clock At Victoria Terminus That Offers A Rare View Of A City; A Cannon Near Masjid Bunder Station That Is Worshipped As A God; A Watchtower Overlooking Sion Station, Believed To Have Housed A Witch. Each Pit-Stop Comes With Stories Of Desire And War, Ambition And Death�By Dockyard Road Station, For Instance, Author Laurence Sterne�S Beloved, Eliza Draper, Followed A Sailor Into The Sea; Or Close To Parel Station, The Wife Of India�S Governor General, Lord Canning Found A Garden Rich In Tropical Vegetation; This, She Replicated At Barrackpore. Drawing From Journals, Biographies, Newspapers And Railway Archives�And With Nostalgic, First-Time Accounts Of Those Who Travelled By India�S Earliest Trains�The Book Captures The Economic And Social Revolutions Spurred By The Country�S First Train Line. In This, Halt Station India Is Not Just About The Railways�It Is The Story Of The Growth Of India�S Business Capital And A Rare Study Of A Nation.