KOLKATA, India (Reuters Life!) - They've been rumbling down Kolkata's roads for more than a 130 years, and now vintage trams are undergoing a makeover in their only home in India to entice commuters ...

Calcutta grew faster than the East India Company ever imagined it would. By the mid 19thcentury, the posh parts of the city were dotted with ornate mansions and palaces. However, there were no cars.

Now considered slow-paced and old, when the trams were introduced in Kolkata for the first time, they were a popular mode of transport. The very first trams, introduced in 1873 in the British capital ...

Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore once called tram a “link between life and literature†even as he described in his Sahaj Paath how “the roads of Kolkata have become like a snake on which the ...

KOLKATA: Trams, a part of Kolkata's transport-scape for 151 years, seem to be on their last leg in the only Indian city where they still run. The state govt will tell Calcutta High Court that trams ...

A tram decorated with images and models of Sunderbans’ flora and fauna will travel between Shyambazar and Ballygunge from March 28 to 30 to highlight how climate change can equally impact the mangrove ...

Sundari tram amader, Sundarban (Our beautiful trams, our Sundarban). As Swarna Chitrakar sings about crouching tigers and trundling trams at the Esplanade tram terminus in Kolkata, she unrolls the ...

From Satyajit Ray’s ‘Mahanagar’ to Anurag Basu’s ‘Barfi!’ — the silver screen has had a long love affair with Kolkata’s trams Frank Bond; Bond Photograph Library, Digital South Asia Library; Rumela ...

Kolkata: Observing that trams are a part of the cultural ethos of Kolkata, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed that tram tracks which were illegally bituminised in the city be restored. No ...

Over the past two decades, the city fathers of Kolkata have regarded the tram with the same disfavour as Greg Chappell has Sourav Ganguly in more recent times. But like the Prince of Kulkutta, the ...

Sundari tram amader, Sundarban (Our beautiful trams, our Sundarban). Sundari tram amader, Sundarban (Our beautiful trams, our Sundarban). As Swarna Chitrakar sings about crouching tigers and trundling ...