Would you believe that there was a time when people would marvel at the wonders of a street light in the city, and follow the lamp-lighter on his routine walk during evenings? Times have changed with the gradual change in city plans, as we discovered while sifting through the pages of our city’s history books. In October 1865, the city welcomed gas lamps on its streets for the first time.

In order to beautify the locality and keep up with the theme, these vintage-looking lamps were put up all around The Gateway of India. Pic/Dhara Vora