Akash Sharma

Marathahalli Bridge — the iconic overpass flyover on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) in eastern Bengaluru — is one of the city's most recognisable, most referenced, and most strategically vital infrastructure landmarks, serving simultaneously as a critical traffic junction, a daily transit hub, a commercial nerve centre, and the defining navigational anchor of the entire Marathahalli neighbourhood. Positioned at the confluence of the Outer Ring Road (NH-44), Old Airport Road, and the Varthur Main Road, Marathahalli Bridge is the primary physical connector between Bengaluru's eastern technology corridors — Whitefield, ITPL, KR Puram, and Varthur — and the city's central, southern,…

Farakka Bridge — the iconic rail-cum-road bridge built as part of the Farakka Barrage complex across the Ganga River in Murshidabad district, West Bengal — is one of the most strategically vital infrastructure landmarks in eastern India, a structure that has served for decades as the only direct road and rail communication link between West Bengal south of the Ganga and the entire North-Eastern Region of India. The Farakka Barrage itself — commissioned on 21 April 1975 and built at a cost of ₹1 billion — is a 2,304-metre long barrage across the Ganga in Murshidabad district, approximately 300 kilometres…