I am traveling from Panvel to Vashi yesteryear a local train, fondly called the ‘Mumbai local’. It is really crowded. As I become far too uncovering a seat, luckily, I heave a sigh of relief too settle. Saddened yesteryear the fact that I hadn't got the window seat, I start playing ‘2048’. H5N1 homo comes and stands beside me. It is fine for a while; too hence the book of travail per unit of measurement expanse of the prepare compartment increases. I am buried inwards my telephone when I starting fourth dimension experience something against my face. The man’s belly. And too hence he smiles at me, innocently, moving a centimeter away.
In Bombay local, nosotros produce non honour the concept of ‘personal space’; it is non our fault, it’s the population. On go yesteryear of that, people assume it is okay to thrust their paunch inwards other people’s faces (not to get upwardly the absence of apologies). Bombay local is a house where people cash inwards one's chips on their i human foot over the other, run across if the paw that is attached to their torso is their ain precisely to survive sure, instruct on too off a railway station unwillingly because the crowd won’t allow them remain pose too most importantly, ensure that the child asset their paw is actually their own. It is slow to instruct lost when you’re already lost, accept your possessions stolen on the agency to go or merely autumn downwardly when you lot to the lowest degree await to.
Despite all this, nosotros honey Bombay local. It is the lifeline, the soul of the city. Even when the local is running empty to the car-shed, it seems to survive total of life. Even when the local is late, it is impossible to abhor it. Even when the local is crowded, it is safe. Even when the local is messy during monsoons, it is our savior. What’s more, it instills inwards us punctuality (that’s why, for us Mumbaikars, 9:03 is 9:03, non 9:00 or 9:05), kindness (‘Aaji’ e'er – too I hateful e'er – gets a spot to sit) too helpfulness (you tin remainder assured you lot volition instruct your luggage within the compartment fifty-fifty if the prepare stops at your station for twenty seconds, amongst others’ help). And for all these reasons too more, nosotros honey Bombay local. For brevity: Bring inwards the monorail, convey inwards the metro; what volition e'er survive our favored carry alternative is the trustworthy, pocket-friendly too darling Bombay local!
As I reminisce virtually my honey for Earth transport, I facial expression upwardly too furnish his smile!
As I reminisce virtually my honey for Earth transport, I facial expression upwardly too furnish his smile!
