Sir Leslie Wilson On the Tracks

Ref Banjaara #11

[I don`t want to be rude,just one question,where is the article?Where is the creativity? I find DIY manuals more invigorating.]

You mean you got in your hands a DIY book on autoeroticism?

(Now, there is a pun hidden there, if you know where to look.)

T - actually I pass this Rail Museum atleast once a week . . . and I do wonder . . . how was it when these iron horses could cross what are today borders . . . I remember some of the Anglo and Pathan railway drivers from the youth that I spent in Jamalpur (E.Rly, oldest steam loco shed) tall stories of elephants and tigers and tribals . . . did you know one thing - many of the Frontier Pathan Railway employees shifted en masse to India after 1947 because they could? A large number were settled into the NE Frontier and Eastern Railway cadres . . .

NOT FROM A PAK NEWS PAPER,

Follwing is fron indian express, the type of report one can never see in a pak paper. May be one day when urstruly quits taliban he might write about one Lala Lajpat Rai from Lahore


A bit of Israel lives on at home



Satish Nandgaonkar



Mumbai, October 28: Shaul Joshuah, 70, rummages through a steel cupboard at the 162-year-old Maghen Aboth synagogue for a shofar, a Jewish musical instrument carved of ram horns. But its lost among the bundles of colourful embroidered clothes and religious paraphernalia.

Israel Street — residents call it Israel Aali — is as lost. In the centre of Alibaug, a coastal town 135 km from Mumbai, and almost forgotten, the few Jewish families who have stayed back are trying to keep its character alive.

This year, they collected donations to repaint the Maghen Aboth synagogue, one of the country’s oldest surviving Jewish monuments.

‘‘The synagogue was built in 1842 by the Jewish community. It is believed the Jews arrived on the Indian coast 2,000 years ago. Some of their ships sank off the Alibaug coast and that’s how they landed here,’’ says Levy Wakrulkar, 35.

When ``Salute Her Highness`` was published on Chowk, I was excited, that for the first time an article on `railways` was onChowk,unfortunatelty, it was any thing but...and the latest..........I don`t want to be rude,just one question,where is the article?Where is the creativity? I find DIY manuals more invigorating.
Regards.
a rail buff

#3 by veeresh:

veeruji hope your coffee was not bland and sanitized…like some articles that give the earnest look of a press release…bland with no soul…no spirit…no personalinsights…

e.g.

you can do a similar sanitized article on the jaisalmer fort…with the mandatory satyajit ray references…

…but should you mention that abandoned locked wooden trunk you saw on way to the roof where the workers were doing minor renovations with the markings still clearly visible that said ‘sialkot station’…and you wonder about the railway employee who lost that trunk and what personal goods may still be in there all these years as the IAF pilots do their sorties overheard…and that hostile territory sixty clicks the wrong way...and wonder whatever happened to the closeness we once had…

…then that article would be less sanitized and more personal…

..enjoy another cuppa...

rgds,

t

Well there is a Sir ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, too . . . and quite a decent one too. (Mayo without gloves on? Isn`t that how they do it anyway?)

Urstruly: atleast we got a media that can report killing et al. The rest, we try to fix.

The grandpa of Pakistani Electric railway system is probably Japanese Government . The electric railway lines run between Lahore-Sahiwal, Lahore-Gujraanwala, and Lahore-Shiekhupura lines, I think, since mid-sixties. However, Sir Ganga Raams development of horse-driven railway system in Faisalabad pre-partition, basically for providing logistics for agri-products to reach markets, is also memorable. Sir Ganga Raam, I think, was the greatest Punjabi Engineer and philonthropist, that ever lived. A hospital in Lahore is named after him.

Jay

When there is peace in rest of the world and only Indian government is killing its own people through state organized genocides, then what is newspaperman to do. Can`t blame him.

news in pakistan,

I have to agree with post 1. This is really informercial for pakistanis, death is the main news for them. Look at the chowk headlines for 28 oct. Killing in assam, west bengal, nepal. Three out of the five items culled by the chowk editors from global news is about killings.

I am sure post 1 is by a pakistani, so is the news selection for 28 oct.

fascinating!

both genders..they wear hideous uniforms and sometimes smear mayo on your burger without the plastic gloves..if u create a fuss, they give u a new mc chicken and apologize

Hamare pyaare ``t`` as I drink my coffee . . . I think the Rail Museum off Moti Bagh in Delhi is worth writing about, entry is free or some 2 rupees or thereabouts . . . and can hardly be classified as an ``infomercial`` . . . amongst other things I think they also have a few wood burners which were originally used in the Landi Kotwal area, including one with bullet holes gifted into it from the tribals of that area . . . regenerative braking is making an appearance now in motorcars . . . good article, thank you . . . and many here would appreciate ``infomercials`` about stuff in Pakistan, also, please . . . for example, are the mcDonalds staff in karachi/Lahore etc. male only or both genders etcetc . . .

LOL to #1

another infomerical?