Sealdah

MOVING UP: Sealdah Station is the last stop for trains from India's northeast

Oh! Kolkata! 2008

Sealdah was my own private, childhood nightmare, Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri told me, referring to the railway station that in the late 1940s, after the partition of India, housed thousands of Hindu refugees from Muslim East Bengal, who had arrived in Calcutta destitute, with nowhere to go.

Oh! Kolkata! 2008

Almost two weeks after the incident, it isn't still clear why M.C. Dey, the driver of the Sealdah-bound Uttarbanga Express and N.K. Mandal, his assistant driver, had suddenly decided to rev up.

Will Indian Trains Ever Be Safe? 2010

Almost two weeks after the incident, it isn't still clear why M.C. Dey, the driver of the Sealdah-bound Uttarbanga Express and N.K. Mandal, his assistant driver, had suddenly decided to rev up.

Will Indian Trains Ever Be Safe? Ashish K. Mishra 2010

MOVING UP: Sealdah Station is the last stop for trains from India's northeast

Oh! Kolkata! 2008

Sealdah was my own private, childhood nightmare, Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri told me, referring to the railway station that in the late 1940s, after the partition of India, housed thousands of Hindu refugees from Muslim East Bengal, who had arrived in Calcutta destitute, with nowhere to go.

Oh! Kolkata! 2008

MOVING UP: Sealdah Station is the last stop for trains from India's northeast

Oh! Kolkata! 2008

They would rise to the sound of the Sealdah Goods and stumble out, chewing on neem twigs to clean their teeth.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

A garden house in Manicktola, the rest room of a girl's school in Hatibagan, a chummery of east Bengali clerks in Sealdah, it seemed no place was safe.

Alipore Bomb case was bigger than 1857. Sadly, our 'eminent' historians never told us this Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

They would rise to the sound of the Sealdah Goods and stumble out, chewing on neem twigs to clean their teeth.

An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008