Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/break-of-gauge Break of Gauge is a novel in three volumes, read aloud one chapter at a time. Goa, March 1880: a servant runs into a presbytery yard because a newborn is not breathing right, and the padre's boy carries the lamp. Across the subcontinent, in the river towns of Sindh, a railway guard learns the halts of a line he will ride for the rest of his working life. Volume I, The Register, follows two families, one Catholic and Goan, one Hindu and Sindhi, through sixty years of parish registers, railway journals, plague, flood and the freedom movement, until the autumn of 1942, when each house holds a wedding and the war comes down the line. Built on one family's own records and memories, and on the public history around them. Episodes are released in order; start with the Prelude. © 2026 Manal P. Mehta. All rights reserved. 57844f26-899f-5c4c-abc7-1ed41345d820 yes en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:50:03 +0200 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:50:14 +0200 https://img.transistorcdn.com/UZ4aEimlSpQXovH3Edi4rJ5alWG0bfuFx7rvX02jjEM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82Y2Fi/NzJmYzEzMmEwM2M3/MjkwNWQ5NThlYmNk/M2M2Yi5qcGc.jpg serial Manal P. Mehta Break of Gauge is a novel in three volumes, read aloud one chapter at a time. Goa, March 1880: a servant runs into a presbytery yard because a newborn is not breathing right, and the padre's boy carries the lamp. Across the subcontinent, in the river towns of Sindh, a railway guard learns the halts of a line he will ride for the rest of his working life. Volume I, The Register, follows two families, one Catholic and Goan, one Hindu and Sindhi, through sixty years of parish registers, railway journals, plague, flood and the freedom movement, until the autumn of 1942, when each house holds a wedding and the war comes down the line. Built on one family's own records and memories, and on the public history around them. Episodes are released in order; start with the Prelude. Break of Gauge is a novel in three volumes, read aloud one chapter at a time. audiobook, literary fiction, historical fiction, family saga, India, Goa, Sindh, railways, Partition, Indian Ocean, colonial history, Konkani, Sindhi, serial novel Manal P. Mehta hello@breakofgauge.com No No 1 1 1 1 Prelude full 6fe41417-d1a9-4201-9ae9-da7015f0fc5b https://share.transistor.fm/s/778700f9 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:57:52 +0200 Manal P. Mehta Manal P. 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