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Transporting citizens into reminiscence
‘Transporting’ citizens into reminiscence. For a very long time, a tonga ride was an important mode of transport in India. Bullock carts catered to rural transportation and elegant horse carriages. It was a luxury travel for the middle class. A tonga could carry a small family or travellers with luggage to the bus stand or railway station.
For a very long time, a tonga ride was an important mode of transport in India. Bullock carts catered to rural transportation and elegant horse carriages. It was a luxury travel for the middle class. A tonga could carry a small family or travellers with luggage to the bus stand or railway station. They carried school children, women and old people for nominal charges. The honest tongawala would help the passengers to reach the required destination, in pouring rain or hot sun, covering the simple vehicle with a tarpaulin.
Drawing us back into the memory lane is a photo exhibition “Metro Chronicles thru the Lenz” at the Marriott Hotel and Convention Centre. The exhibition is organised by the Muse Art Gallery and was inaugurated by the Mayor, Mohd Majid Hussain and will be on till September 30. L&T MRH chief executive and managing director V B Gadgil was impressed by the collection of the photographs.
The bullock cart was utilised as a means to carry goods like grains, vegetables, crops, hay, cattle feed and other essential commodities. With time, the bullock carts evolved as a popular mode of transport in Indian villages. These animals were widely used for ploughing fields and later, they were also made to pull carts.
Metro Chronicles thru Lenz is a photo exhibition depicting 400 years of transportation in Hyderabad with a glimpse on Hyderabad Metro Rail project work.
The idea of the exhibition is to depict the various modes of transportation used by Hyderabadis in the last 400 years and how technology has evolved and brought in a change and added speed to travelling. The last 100 years saw Hyderabad transform from a big village to a metropolis and the past two decades brought a quantum jump in the progress and development of this great city.
The driving licenses were very much in place during the Nizams era too. Could one believe that travelling by bus cost a mere one and half anna.
Unbelievable but true are these pictures depicting modes of transport from 1760 to the present.
