Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES OF INDIA SERIES Children’s Books

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Travelling through Time

Author Subuhi Jiwani Artist Kishan Dev

About UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India Children, look around you. Our world is beautiful, with snowy mountain peaks and sparkling rivers, home to many peoples, animals, birds and trees. There are also mighty monuments

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built by our forefathers which have stood fast for centuries, enriching our lives and history.

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) work together to help keep them safe.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites are places around the world that are remarkable examples of natural or man-made landscapes and architecture. As of 2018, there are 37 such celebrated sites in India. We need to take care of these sites and protect them.

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus was designed by the British architect F. W. Stevens and built by Indian craftsmen in 1878-88 at Bori Bunder. It was earlier called Victoria Terminus because

For the first time, Mapin Publishing is producing a series of

India at that time was governed by the British. The port city of

children’s books about UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites in

Bombay (as Mumbai was then called) had become a major centre of

India. We hope that the books will make these places seem like

world trade and was thought to deserve a grand railway station. The style

old friends, waiting to meet you again. So, young reader, let us

combined Indian and British features, and the Terminus is a work of art as well as a busy station. Today, part of it is a museum.

begin our exciting journey across India!

Eric Falt Director and UNESCO Representative UNESCO New Delhi

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES OF INDIA SERIES Children’s Books

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Travelling through Time

Author Subuhi Jiwani Artist Kishan Dev

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The clocks are my babies,” Bandu often says.

He has cared for time machines at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus for almost 40 years. Every morning, he begins his rounds on the ground floor of the grand station building. He moves in a clockwise direction, from one pendulum clock to another, until he reaches the granddaddy of them all. It’s ten feet wide, in a large attic above the second floor.

Today is a muggy summer’s day, and Bandu is exhausted from the winding and the climbing. He sets out for the sugarcane juice stall a few yards from the station. Once there, he asks for a large glass. As soon as the juice touches his lips, he only hears one sound: gulp, gulp, Relief at last.

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Before he has finished, he sees Laali and Mithu standing in a corner, staring at his glass of juice with desiring eyes. They are too shy to ask for some.

Bandu gestures with his hands: do you want some ?

They give him wide smiles, and soon, he’s ordering two more glasses.

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As Laali, the older of the two, and Mithu are slurping their juice, Bandu asks them, “What are you doing here? And where are your parents?”

“They work over there,” Laali speaks up, pointing to a construction site nearby. “There’s no one to take care of us at home so we come with them.”

“But we get bored!” Mithu complains. “So we roam, roam, roam but get tired and thirsty.”

Wiping her lips, Laali says, “We saw this beautiful palace from far away and wondered whose it was…”

Bandu’s eyes almost pop out of their sockets. “Palace? Oh no!

This is no palace. It is one of the grandest train stations in India and the world! The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus!”

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Bandu’s face lights up when he talks about the station. His first job was as CST’s clock keeper, and it will be his last. He treasures the building like a second home.

“Can we go inside?” Mithu wants to know.

“Umm…” Bandu wavers. Only people who work with the railways or tourists who pay an entry fee are allowed inside this fancy building.

Bandu would like to show Laali and Mithu its many arches and animals. But would he get caught?

Lost in thought, Bandu feels someone tugging at his shirt. It’s Mithu, looking up at him. “Please, please, please!” Mithu begs.

“All right.” Bandu has thought of a way. “There’s a secret passage that no one takes. Come, but you must be quiet.”

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They walk towards the bus depot on the south side of the building. Between two bus stops is a small, unlocked gate.

Before opening it, Bandu glances at Laali and Mithu, his finger on his lips. Quietly, they step inside.

They walk through a maze of arches, past circular staircases, around pillars with creatures looking down at them.

“Who are they?” Laali asks loudly, pointing to a string of birds.

“Sssshhh!” Bandu whispers.

On hearing footsteps behind them, Bandu sneaks Laali and Mithu into the railway museum on the ground floor. Far from being afraid, the children feel they’ve entered a playground.

On the wall is a photograph of a man with a moustache that covers his upper lip. “How does he eat?” Mithu chuckles.

Bandu frowns. “He’s the man because of whom you’re standing in this building. He designed it! He was the chief architect—Mr Stevens.”

“Archi… who?” Laali looks puzzled.

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Mithu, by now, has jumped across to the models of the first steam trains that pulled out of the station. Laali is quick to follow. They’re both dazzled by the blinking lights inside a passenger coach.

“Never mind,” Bandu says. He’d like to tell them about the history of the building. But how can he get them to pay attention and to listen?

He has an idea. “If you think the blinking lights are magical, wait till you see what I’m going to show you!”

He pops his head out of the museum door and then back in. “All clear! Let’s go!”

They run up two floors, a narrow spiral staircase and a wooden ladder. To the place he knows best— the clock room!

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Artist: Kishan Dev has worked for a lot of blockbuster Bollywood movies and TV series but his real love is drawing and storytelling. He once went to Florence, Italy to study oil painting, and is now exploring the French techniques of plein–air painting with his friends. He loves to paint outdoors and also to encourage others to sketch!

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25 Manas Wildlife Sanctuary 26 Mountain Railways of India

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The children in the story explore the Descent of the Ganges, with its carvings of animals, humans and celestial beings. Temples, tigers and tsunamis all feature in this tale of the Mahabalipuram complex by the sea, lost and then miraculously found again.

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Bandu is the devoted clock-keeper at CSM Terminus in Mumbai, or VT as some people still call it. One busy day, Bandu and two friends tumble through time to the past and future, accompanied by a talking griffin, freedom fighters and flying cars.

Subuhi Jiwani is an independent researcher, writer and filmmaker based in Mumbai. Kishan Dev is an artist who has worked in print publishing and Bollywood.

Story by Dr. Erach Bharucha • Illustrations by Maya Ramaswamy

A large group of school children join Dr. Erach “Doc” Bharucha at the Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur. Amid lush vegetation and a lively orchestra of birds, the natural landscape of the sanctuary comes alive for these young, intrepid explorers.

Dr. Erach Bharucha is a surgeon based in Pune and has been active in ecological conservation for several decades. Maya Ramaswamy is an illustrator who has

worked on several children’s books about wildlife and conservation.

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