Rahul Bhattacharya

Rahul Bhattacharya is the author of Railsong

The miracle of India’s railways

From our UK edition

‘Because it is the Indian Railways that makes India.’ When I have a loquacious personnel officer declare this in my novel, Railsong, I am tapping into an idea as old as the railways in India. To be clear, there was no entity called the Indian Railways back in the mid-nineteenth century. But the British could envisage