00:00Did you know Kolkata's iconic wooden trams were once rolling battlefields?
00:03In colonial India, British-owned trams were seen as symbols of imperial control.
00:09Freedom fighters boycotted, attacked, and even burned them during mass protests against colonial rule.
00:15Yet, during the devastating riots of 1946, heroic tram drivers turned these vulnerable cars into mobile sanctuaries,
00:22risking their lives to rescue trapped civilians across hostile streets.
00:26They survived empire, fire, and riots and still roll today.
