COVER STORY
Mumbai suburban rail network: the city’s lifeline needs to be reimagined to stop Elphinstone-like disasters
Outlook Magazine - 16 October 2017
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A new economic history of Asia springs forth on several daring proposals. Annual visitors to Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine will be most pleased, though.
Mumbai’s geriatric suburban rail system is creaking at the joints. Let DMRC build an elevated track system and bring in its safe coaches.
Railways’ collective amnesia about its worst accidents only helps save the guilty
Alone among WWII belligerents, Soviet women saw frontline action. Their voices, stifled for long by a disparaging state, speak eloquently.
The callousness, incompetence and criminal negligence in how this colonial legacy works would put even General Dyer of Jalianwala Bagh infamy to shame. Even after causing thousands of deaths in some of the world’s worst rail accidents, this public deparment has helped every guilty employee go scot-free.
"In Hugh Hefner's passing away last week, we have lost a trailblazer, someone who followed his bliss," says Sherlyn Chopra
As for the ‘Mr. Dalit’ Whatsapp campaign, the Dalits have once again shown the world that they will not be cowed down.
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Mumbai’s suburban rail network is still essentially what the British built
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A new economic history of Asia springs forth on several daring proposals. Annual visitors to Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine will be most pleased, though.
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Mumbai’s geriatric suburban rail system is creaking at the joints. Let DMRC build an elevated track system and bring in its safe coaches.
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Railways’ collective amnesia about its worst accidents only helps save the guilty
-
Alone among WWII belligerents, Soviet women saw frontline action. Their voices, stifled for long by a disparaging state, speak eloquently.
-
The callousness, incompetence and criminal negligence in how this colonial legacy works would put even General Dyer of Jalianwala Bagh infamy to shame. Even after causing thousands of deaths in some of the world’s worst rail accidents, this public deparment has helped every guilty employee go scot-free.
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"In Hugh Hefner's passing away last week, we have lost a trailblazer, someone who followed his bliss," says Sherlyn Chopra
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As for the ‘Mr. Dalit’ Whatsapp campaign, the Dalits have once again shown the world that they will not be cowed down.
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