Frederick FN Noronha Subject: [Goanet] Bye Bye Byculla
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/Bye-bye-Byculla/article16914730.ece Thanks to Reena Martins, via the Bomoicar network on Facebook. ---------------------- GL responds: I lived in Byculla for a major part of my life in Bombay. During that time I took the commuter train (local) daily from Byculla rail station to Parel station to get to my medical school in KEM hospital in Parel. The Byculla rail station like most stations along the Central Railway line in the 1960s and 1970s and later was a DUMP. And likely it continues to be so today. To want to preserve the rail station "the-way-it-was", the researchers or historians need to get their head examined and perhaps move to or live in or near the rail station for a month. The photographic views always look nice from a particular angle and in perfect light. The view is different in the hot summer, monsoon, peak of harvest, etc. etc. For the last decades, these nostalgia-lovers could have worked and clamored for a restoration of the train stations to minimum sanitary and civil standards using a combined effort of the local government, railway authorities and the local neighborhoods. Regards, GL
