There shouldn't be any doubt that anyone who visited Mumbai would be as remindful a symbol as the Gateway to India. Quiet prominently, the boxy, black-and-yellow Premier Padmini taxis have pursue busily the city's streets for nearly half a century, to challenge the power of their old age to befit in appearance a part of the fabric of this chaotic metropolis.

At the present time, a new city regulation is experiencing commencement to send the venerable Padmini - known as Fiat taxis in succession to the Italian model they were based on to scrap mass. Accompanying them will go a piece of India's history at the same time the taxis' colorful personalised upholstery that has impressed deeply so many passengers that websites have thrust forward to commemorate them as an art form.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)