Kolkata, Sept. 30 -- Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore once called tram a "link between life and literature" even as he described in his Sahaj Paath how "the roads of Kolkata have become like a snake on which the Tram hurtles," down.

Tram was also a central topic in poet Jibanananda Das's iconic work, Banalata Sen. Ironically he died in a tram accident in 1954. Decades later a famous modern Bengali writer likened the iconic Tram of Kolkata with a pre-historic reptile even as he called it a "Prak Oitihasik Sorisreep."

No more these literatures: As the Bengal Government has decided to derail the 'space guzzling' vehicle -- arguably the only surviving environment-friendly transport service of Kolkata, nay the entire country.

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