In my last column (December 17), I mentioned the delink of Assam after 1947 and Karnail Singh. Let me quote from Economic Weekly (April 18, 1953) to illustrate how important the Assam Rail Link Project (ARLP) was. I could have given it in my words, too. But a quote from 1953 seems to convey the importance better. “Of the engineering projects completed during the post-war period, none has been so remarkable as the ARLP. Its completion in record time provided the vital link between Assam and the rest of India, which was suddenly snapped by the Partition. After a rapid
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