The Business Towns

Malda Town, Malda, isn’t the official name of any town. It’s the name of the railway station. The city around it is officially called English Bazar, and most of the…

Model Town, Delhi, almost became the capital of India. In 1912, the Delhi Town Planning Committee’s first choice for New Delhi was this land north of Shahjahanabad, because it connected…

Silicon Town, Bengaluru, has had metro access for more than a year, even though some property listings still describe it as “upcoming.” The Yellow Line opened on 10 August 2025,…

Siliguri Town, Siliguri, has three major railway stations, and each one tells a different chapter of its history. Siliguri Town station came first under the British, Siliguri Junction took over…

Steel Town, Karachi, is a company town whose company stopped making steel more than a decade ago. On 10 June 2015, Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) shut down, bringing the township…

Tagore Town, Prayagraj, has an unusual date attached to its name. Wikipedia says the neighbourhood was built in 1909, four years before Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize, and yet…

Tiruchirappalli Town, Tiruchirappalli, was once enclosed by a fort, and today almost all that’s left of it is a gate and two railway stations named after it. The old fort…

Tangla Town, Assam, was once part of a trade route that stretched all the way to Tibet. Monpa traders from Tibet came down to Tangla and nearby Udalguri to buy…

Jew Town, Kochi, has exactly one Jewish resident left. In May 2026, during Shavuot, Keith Hallegua walked to the Paradesi Synagogue at the end of his cobbled street and prayed…

The Spice Town, Bengaluru, is a rooftop barbecue buffet, not a locality, though its name makes it easy to mistake for one. It sits on the fourth floor of a…