All right ladies, the special train to CST (central line) reaches Kurla station at 9:01 amNow don't push me this easy-to-get-in train...
How to get in a crowded train
Getting in a crowded local train in Mumbai isn't that tough really. Of course, experience helps in this case too, after all it's an art and it takes time to master it. But trust me, it's not impossible.Here are the basics:1 - If you are thin: Try to be the first one to reach near the door of the train. Others [the ones who are lucky to be much stronger than you] will see to it that you get inside the train so that they are able to.2 - If you are fat: Hello... why do you think God gifted you those extra kilos? Use them to your advantage. Just push...
Ladies special local train - time - Goregaon
If you wish to board a ladies special train to Churchgate from Goregaon station, you have two options.One ladies special train reaches Goregaon station [platform number 2] at 8:24 am. If it's too early for you, you can catch a 9:31 ladies special. The two trains, I suppose, start from Virar and Borivli respectively [not sure though].The 8:24 train is more crowded than the other one. You have an advantage if you wish to catch the 9:31 train as in case if you miss it, you can take the Goregaon local that starts from Goregaon at around the same time.If...
Main pehle utrungi types (I'll be the first to get off the train)
Perhaps they never won any running race in their school days. Perhaps they were always the first from the last. These people seem to have just one motto in life – Leave the world behind, be the first one to get off the train.So they move fervently towards the door of the local train. They don’t care if the train is crowded, if their pointed heels offer acupuncture to many a feet or if their WWF champions type heavy weight body crushes the lean mean creatures around. They are dead serious when they decide, “Main pehle utrungi / utrunga” (I’ll get...
Travelling to Navi Mumbai
It's amazing how all that we feel about our things is so relative. Travelling beyond Bandra until now was like a real long journey for me. And now, when I need to travel to New Bombay a.k.a. Navi Mumbai, this journey in the western suburbs seems like child's play.Must learn the tricks of boarding and getting off Navi Mumbai trains soon. Any ti...
When the train changes tracks, it affects the blind passengers
The other day I had another encounter with something on the Mumbai local that still gives me goosebumps. I was seated in the ladies compartment of a fast train. A blind innocent-looking man got in the compartment at Bandra and was standing near the foot board. No one told him to take the compartment for the physically challenged perhaps because the train wasn't much crowded.Now, when a fast train to Borivali halts at Andheri station the platform mostly comes on the right hand side. And the man was rightly standing on the right hand side. I was...
Graffiti is back
My last to last post spoke about all the goodness in the local train these days. Not any more this time. Saw the bad graffiti and phone numbers scribbled in many compartments recently. Grrr... Literacy is good, but some use it only for such stupid thin...
See someone around you feeling sick? PLEASE HELP
If you ever see someone fainting or feeling sick or someone who just met with an accident, in your train or on the road or just anywhere, for God sake don't simply think, "He'll be fine" and walk away. I urge you to raise an alarm or do whatever you can do to help without wasting a single second. Last night, perhaps a woman could have been saved if people around her had come to her help before it was too late.We talk about the spirit of Mumbai all the time... when some people saw a woman in a train last night and she was just not well, I hear they...
Mumbai local trains - graffiti
Enter a ladies compartment of local trains and you would generally notice lewd graffiti scribbled wherever your eyes wander. However, the other day, I was more than impressed. There were green patches painted over what earlier used to be embarrassing and irritating words! The railway officials seem to help us out and make our travel a little bit easy.Not just that, on the same day, at the same time, in the same compartment, a policeman too was present. Wow, now that's what I call a safe and pleasant journey. Hope that we don't come across lewd...
Train travelling with good old friends
Life's busy. Or at least we think that it is. So how do we catch up with friends when life moves at the speed of light?It's kinda unspoken understanding, but me and my sweet friend Varsha try and meet up while travelling back home. Of course, it takes a lot of coordination (it's rare that we both reach our respective stations to board the same train every day). But then, those 15 minutes are spent happily chattering away just the way we used to do during our college days! Somehow, those 15 minutes seem to pass away n times faster as compared to...
Local train at midnight
This Friday, we friends made a last minute plan to go for dinner. Bandra seemed comfortable for all of us (after much argument of course) and so it was selected as the destination. Obviously, as it was a weekend, we went to dinner a bit late as each one of us was working that day. Late - considering that I was the only girl and had to go back home alone as the rest stay in South Mumbai. We finished our indulgence in gluttony a rather too late. And then there was this thing about Mrinal must drop me home as it was almost midnight. How I hate being...
Little bit relief in trains... at least for the women
Finally! The timing for the ladies compartment to become general has been extended. Wow! What a relief. So now the 'hungry to jump into the ladies compartment at 9 p.m.' men need to wait till 11:15 p.m.For us, the ladies compartment is not a crowded fish market between 9 and 10 p.m. I thank the authorities responsible for this improveme...
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