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By: Rajiv Chopra
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| Monday, 5-Sep-2005 00:00 |
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This is India - 1. Bombay VT Station
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A view of the dome
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A detail.
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The Lion At the top
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A General View
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Another View
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The Lion At The Gate.
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This is the start of a new series, about India. I will, of course, dip in and out of shots of India. The start of this series is dedicated to Fazizaid!!
These pictures were taken many years ago. When the world was a simpler place. When I grew my hair long, wore torn clothes and, had a bright, innocent look about me!
Bombay VT Station is a landmark of Bombay. The full form is Bombay Victoria Terminus Station. Victoria is Queen Victoria of Great Britain and, this structure was built in the 1800's. Nationalistic people now have renamed the station as Chhatrapathi Shivaji Station, after an old Indian Hero. But, for old timers like us and, for the young folk of today, it is still called Bombay VT Station or, VT. It can't be anything else.
It's the place from where people catch suburban trains and, long distance trains. And, long ago when Bombay (or, Mumbai as it is now called) was the only commercial city in the country, VT was the first glimpse of Bombay that migrant workers from other parts of the country got. And boy, what a view it was! It still is a great view but, I am not too sure if too many people are aware of this (more recent) part of our history.
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You must be having a huge Photo Bank of all the historic buildings of India starting from the beautiful Taj to the shrines of north India to the magnificent temple architecture of South India to the beautiful Churches of Goa, the palace city of Kolkata ,
