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MONDAY,8 31 FRIDAY, AUGUST, MARCH,2014 2014
In most bustling metros with public transportation, local buses, trains, and trams personify the pulse and pace of the city itself. Mumbai‘s local train service, which transports an astonishing eight million commuters per day is the lifeline of this city. The trains are over-
crowded, doors never close, regulars form little micro communities with their prayer or card game routines. Some entrepreneurial passengers even use this regular commute time to earn a supplementary income by dishing out a quick Mehendi design in the ladies compart-
ment or cutting their vegetables for dinner. Mumbai Weekly‘s Shweta Agrawal spent a day at Byculla station to photograph the resilience, laid backness and resourcefulness of Mumbaikars as seen in its stations.