Mumbai a city so heavily dependent on public transport gets crippled when there is halt in the train services. A million commuters get on Mumbai trains everyday in the morning and in the evening. And when those million people get on the roads it chaos everywhere.
Last night at CST station when no trains where running and people where still stranded there at around 10:30 pm, out of frustration they got on the roads and were stopping every vehicle that was passing by and getting in it if there was space to get in. Not a common site to, to literary barge in any vehicle. Some of the vehicle owners were kind of enough to give those people a ride back home but of course most were not.
But its almost like when the trains stop running the city has been hit where it hurts the most, but as they say the spirits of Mumbai can not be damped for long, it will reappear but only when the trains start working otherwise the offices will half empty, the business will run at half their potential. And everyone would lose directly or indirectly.
On a parallel track all this just makes me wish I could be at a place where life is smooth and the only trouble creator in my life is me and not anyone or anything else.
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