When the Punjab mail draws up in a station bright with electric light, and we are borne away to a hotel full of up-to-date comforts, where groups of fashionably dressed people sit chatting at small tables, while outside we hear the hooting of engines ...
When the Punjab mail draws up in a station bright with electric light, and we are borne away to a hotel full of up-to-date comforts, where groups of fashionably dressed people sit chatting at small tables, while outside we hear the hooting of engines belonging to the different lines that form a junction here, we imagine that we have arrived at some modern metropolis rather than at the ancient city of Delhi.