How old is the building?
Hi everyone, As I walk through the indolent platforms of Thanjavur, my mind makes it a comparison with Chennai M G Ramachandiran Central , the station with the third lengthiest name and the busiest in South India. Thanjavur Junction is not as busy as we see in Chennai, it is calm but populated, small but spacious, and new but quaint. It has pockets of old abandoned buildings along with newly built platforms and escalators, just like months-old pickles with freshly made curd rice. Yeah, now the inner Sha wants to know if the curd rice was made by the Government of India who made those pickles! Since the city was not part of Madras presidency but a province under Tanjore Marathas it is unusual to see British buildings in this town. The fascinating history recalls the subsidiary alliance, that we studied in History books. Tanjore was one of the earliest to become a subsidiary of British and hence had a taste of British infrastructure at places. But do you know...When did the first train a
