Ashwani Lohani’s contribution

The singular contribution of Ashwani Lohani to the cause of national heritage was recently being discussed. He started with bringing railway heritage centre stage, then setting a GUINNESS for reviving and running on the main line, Fairy Queen the oldest working steam locomotive in the world and singlehandedly filing two successful nominations for the encryption of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and Mahabodhi Temple Bodhgaya as UNESCO World Heritage sites, besides many other unique interventions in the field of heritage and culture.