{"title":"Rajendra B. Aklekar","description":"RAJENDRA B. AKLEKAR (born 1974) is an Indian journalist with more than two decades of experience. He is presently with Mid-Day, Mumbai, as Senior Assistant Editor. Rajendra is the bestselling author of Halt Station India and India's Railways Man: A Biography of E. Sreedharan.","products":[{"product_id":"short-history-of-indian-railways-paperback","title":"Short History of Indian Railways - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid you know that India's first steam engine never ran on tracks and was actually used to run driving mills in a factory? That the maximum speed of the first commercial train in India was 4.5 miles\/hour? That the country's first-ever steam locomotive could never be introduced commercially since it was destroyed in a factory blast? That the locomotive engine for the maiden rail run between Bombay and Thane was pulled by 200 coolies on streets? That there actually was a plan to build a rail network from the English Channel all the way to the river Indus? This is a people's history of Indian Railways. Anecdotes and stories are curated from the time the first wagon rolled in India, up to the advent of bullet trains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68275941900511,"sku":"9789353332877","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uNg2UobRJB9789353332877.webp?v=1792738306"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/rajendra-b-aklekar.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}