Shreya tells My Kolkata, “My grandmother was diabetic, and so we would stock up on insulin. Everything you see - right from the greenery and the mountains to the homes and traffic signals - looks elaborate. The layout in Bansal’s hobby room is intricately detailed.
He gave all his time to trains.” She adds with a laugh, “My mother wasn’t very happy about this, though.” From 8.30am to 5.30pm, I would be in my hobby room, perfecting everything.” Bansal’s daughter, Shreya, says, “We joke that the lockdown was difficult for everyone except Papa.
I remember us chilling the compartment with a Rs 25 ice box.”īansal with his first toy train, which he purchased from India’s Hobby Centreĭuring the Covid lockdown, Bansal emptied out a room in his house and began to assemble an elaborate toy train layout there. “When we would take the Udyan Abha Toofan Express to Agra, we’d travel first class. We kept buying more.” Showing off his first train, a perfectly preserved key-operated Hornby toy, Bansal remembers more of his childhood train journeys. That’s when my father got me my first toy train set from India’s Hobby Centre. “I wanted to buy it, but they refused to sell. As an eight-year-old, Bansal saw in the shop window of G. His rusty cameras and elaborate toy trains all tell a story.īorn in Kolkata in 1956, Bansal travelled in Darjeeling’s toy train as a child. Amit Bansal has made everything in his sprawling toy train setup with his own hands Photos: Suvendu DasĪmit Kumar Bansal’s Tollygunge home has a timeless quality to it.
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