The Indian Railways are often romanticised as a colonial gift, an infrastructure legacy that unified a fragmented land and modernised the subcontinent. However, this narrative masks the deeper ...
Of all the millions of journeys Indian Railways has undertaken since its founding in 1853, its latest – from British Raj pomp to full “decolonisation” – is arguably its most challenging.
Because it is the Indian Railways that makes India.’ When I have a loquacious personnel officer declare this in ...
Kapil Sibal, DY Chandrachud, and Tushar Mehta attended the launch of Rakesh Dwivedi’s ‘Colonisation Crusade and Freedom of ...