My Railway Song of British Times

My Railway Song of British Times

From the long common verandah on the third floor of our 5-storey tenement building on Dadar Main Road I - as a child - could look past the houses of Kutra Wadi to rail lines of the Great Indian Peninsular or G.I.P. Railway and beyond to the lines of the Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway. (After Independence the names were changed to Central and Western Railways respectively.) One of my pastimes as a child was waiting on the verandah to watch my father return from his job at Ballard Estate in the Fort area of Bombay. And to while away the time (and not get worried when he was late) I would the watch the trains going back-and-forth and chant in sing-song: 'G.I.P. Railway! B.B. and C.I. Railway! G.I.P.......'  

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Dreams of One Country, Ms Jagjit Daniel's MovieScopic India Novel. Te book my wife Jagjit and I worked on together also has some memorable scenes of Bombay and India in British times and World War II. It's now available for Print Copy delivered to you by Amazon - apart from e-download. Dreams is a story set in the midst of historic national upheavals like the Emergency, of a Love-lit youth campaign that launches India's delayed, talent-led ascent...to join the world's most progressive nations.

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