My better half’s blog on the CST building in Mumbai.
I remember the first time in Bombay almost 8 years back, when I walked from the Victoria Terminus Station to Fountain. I was a law student then and had come for an internship at a law firm in the historic Fort area. The footsteps and voices of thousands of people walking out of the station and towards their workplaces with a sense of determination and purpose, only interrupted by the sound of chugging engines and announcements on the intercom was an intensely overwhelming feeling and was my first real introduction to the megalopolis of Bombay.
Later I shifted to the city when Bombay became Mumbai. Over the years I have passed by and through this imposing monument (that was later renamed as Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus)…. sometimes jostling through a crowd in a rush to catch a train and sometimes leisurely. appreciating its colonial glitz and Neo Gothc glamour. Witness to the…
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