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Rajendra B. Aklekar
Born
🏡 ResidenceMumbai
🏳️ NationalityIndian
💼 Occupation
Author/Journalist
📆 Years active  21
🌐 Websitehttp://rajendrabaklekar.com/
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About

Rajendra B. Aklekar (born 1974) is an Indian journalist with 21 years’ experience, presently with Mid-Day Mumbai as Senior Assistant Editor, and author of two books on trains and railways.

His first independent book Halt Station India- The Dramatic Tale of the Nation’s First Rail Lines (1) (Rupa 2015), released (2) by India's Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, was about the story of India's first railway line in Mumbai. The book (3) chronicles the dramatic rise of India’s original rail network, the arrival of the first train, and the subsequent emergence of a pioneering electric line—all in the port city of Bombay. The book was shortlisted (4) at the Bangalore Literature Festival 2015 as best Non-Fiction (English).

His second book India's Railway Man- A Biography of Dr E Sreedharan, (5) also released (6) by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu (Rupa 2017) is the biography of India's prominent railway engineer Dr E Sreedharan. The biography has been endorsed (7) by Dr Sreedharan personally with a signed note in it. It documents his life story on how this iconic railway man got about building the Konkan Railway along India's western coast on an extremely difficult terrain to how he introduced the culture of urban Metro rail in India.

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1. DNA Mumbai "Book Review: Halt Station India". DNA Newspaper India. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 2. India, PIB. "Press Information Bureau India"., Govt. of India. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 3. "Halt Station India". ISBN Search. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 4. Bengaluru Lit Fest 2015. "The Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Non-Fiction Prize (English)". Bengaluru Literary Festival 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 5. Publications, Rupa. India's Railway Man- A Biography of E Sreedharan Rupa Publications. Retrieved 21 July 2017. 6. Prabhu, Suresh. "Book Release". Twitter. 7. Aklekar, Rajendra (February 2017). India's Railway Man (First ed.). New Delhi: Rupa Publications. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-81-291-4521-5.