The Gaslamp: An old tale of two Cities
The Gas-lamp: An old tale of two Cities The first Gas-lamp of India: The first gas lamp of India, which was not used to illuminate the street side of a city, instead illuminated the home of Ardeseer Cursetjee, a member of the city‟s Parsi‟s elite and scion of the wealthy Wadia family of shipbuilders of Bombay in 1834. It took more than thirty-one years of time for the Gas-lamp to make a place on the roadside of Bombay (1865) for city illumination but eight years before that, Calcutta had witnessed this Gas-lamp installation on her roadside in 1857. Starting from 1857 till today in the era of LED, lighting, and the illumination of these two cities, witnessed a drastic change through several types of lamps and their illuminations. Today, we can still find some ornamented and decorated old Gaslamp structures, which try to say their colourful bright history, which kindled the light in the lives of the citizens once. Some local history, stories of some personality had been carri...