*******RIP Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam*********
India loses one of its gems from its crown today....
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As the Government of India has announced a national mourning of 7 days, the iconic trains BOAT MAIL & SETHU EXPRESS of Rameswaram, his hometown should have a black flag in the front of the loco and the...
more... crew working them should have black ribbons on their uniforms. That would be the least the Railways can do. Will SR do it?!
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A small attachment with our railfan community:
"As the difficulties of the war started affecting us, Samsuddin came up with a proposal that excited and delighted me tremendously. One fallout of the conditions was that the rail stop at Rameswaram station had been done away with. What would happen to our news papers then? How were they to be collected and then distributed to all the people of the town who were looking forward to their daily dose of news? Samsuddin found a way out. The Tamil and English news papers would be kept ready in large bundles. As the train chugged down the Rameswaram-Dhanushkodi track, they would be flung out on to the platform. And that is where I came in. Samsuddin ordered me the enjoyable job of catching these bundles of papers being thrown from the moving train and then taking them around town for distribution!"
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