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Tracks of history

Every Indian seems to have at least one romantic railway memory

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Uttaran Das Gupta New Delhi
Indian Railways
The Weaving of a National Tapestry
Bibek Debroy, Sanjay Chadha, Vidya Krishnamurthi
Penguin
225 pages; Rs 229 (paperback)

A few years back, on a trip from New Delhi to Kolkata, my travelling companion in the first-class coupe of the Rajdhani was an aspiring politician from Gaya. Learning that I worked for a Bihar newspaper — I was then a subeditor at the Patna desk of The Telegraph — he started discussing national politics with me. Soon, he produced a bottle of Chivas and, as he drank steadily, his narrative became tinged with nostalgia. 

“Back in the 1980s, when I was a student

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