Burning from blue to greenish, a palm-sized booklet, among hundreds such stitched in a cloth bag, had the words ‘Republic of India’ embossed in golden.
“Sir, these are passports,” shouted a worker, alerting his superior officer. “At least some of them, thank god,” the latter sighed with satisfaction, as he quickly recovered and placed them away.
The senior officer of India Post attached to Secunderabad railway station’s terminal mail office, along with his 14 colleagues, was near coach D3 of the East Coast Express (Hyderabad to Shalimar 18046) on platform no.2 on Friday, segregating valuable mail from burnt debris for close to six hours.
