Above : Seat 1Below : Seat 2
This is a glimpse of Ladies First Class Compartment one mid afternoon!
It was captured almost a month back (in mid September) on my way to Asian Heart Institute, Bandra from Mira Road to see my Dad. I got a shock as I got into the Churchgate bound train. You could see one seat missing as soon as you got in. The shock doubled when I went to sit on the adjacent seat. The seat on the opposite side was missing too! So, two seats (situated diagonally) were missing in a single compartment!
One lady called someone in the Railways and informed them when the train was about to reach Andheri. But nothing happened. My mind was preoccupied with what was happening at the hospital as my Dad was in ICU after his coronary bypass surgery. I got down at Bandra.
Almost a fortnight later I again saw a missing seat in the Virar train while returning from office in the evening from Mumbai Central. This time around, only one seat was missing and the train was crowded.
Where did the seats disappear? Did it serve as a bed for someone or land up as seats on a autorickshaw?
4 comments:
That's interesting....
Everything in Mumbai is !
That's quite true. These days I'm reading "Maximum City Bombay Lost and Found" by Suketu Mehta. It's an amazing book, revealing all the aspects of Mumbai, even those which some of us hardly know that they exist.
I hope to get hold of this book soon!
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