{"id":37602,"date":"2021-10-03T23:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/03\/renting-the-taj-mahal-the-fight-to-save-darjeelings-toy-train"},"modified":"2021-10-03T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:00:30","slug":"renting-the-taj-mahal-the-fight-to-save-darjeelings-toy-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37602","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Renting the Taj Mahal\u2019: the fight to save Darjeeling\u2019s toy train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s tiny train has puffed up the Himalayas since 1881 but now the world heritage site is under threat<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Darjeeling ko san<\/em><em>o rail, hirna lai abo tyari cha<\/em><em> \/ Guard le shuna bhai siti bajayo<\/em>\u201d (Darjeeling\u2019s dainty train is all set to chug off \/ Oh, listen to the guard blowing the whistle): generations of children in Darjeeling have grown up hearing these lines from a Nepali nursery rhyme. Serenading the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR), it depicts the close relationship between the \u201cQueen of the Hills\u201d and local people.<\/p>\n<p>However, that relationship has become strained after the Indian government decided to hand over the running of the railway \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/944\/\">listed by Unesco as a world heritage site<\/a> \u2013 and oversight of the land adjoining the stations to a private company, threatening jobs and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/03\/renting-the-taj-mahal-the-fight-to-save-darjeelings-toy-train\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s tiny train has puffed up the Himalayas since 1881 but now the world heritage site is under threat\u201cDarjeeling ko sano rail, hirna lai abo tyari cha \/ Guard le shuna bhai siti bajayo\u201d (Darjeeling\u2019s dainty train is all set to chug off \/ Oh, listen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[847,59,514,62,80,766,2368,61,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-global-development","category-heritage","category-india","category-protest","category-rail-transport","category-rail-travel","category-south-and-central-asia","category-travel","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37603,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37602\/revisions\/37603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}