By TirthankarMitra KOLKATA; Remember a close shot of a tram’s trolley pole snug against the overhead line sparking at every joint in the film ‘Mahanagar’. It was the opening shot of the1963 film directed by Satyajit Ray in which the tram track identifies this metropolis. West Bengal government’s transport minister SnehashishChakraborti hasannounced the imminentclosure of Kolkata’s 150-year old tram system. The tram services in Kolkata have already beenheavily truncated. Itwould soon be a relic of the past. A short journey […]

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