Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Mumbai Trains!!!

Now that I am in mumbai it would be bad on my part if i dont mention about the local trains here. Who could have guessed that nearly 6 million people travel in trains daily. Well i understood it the very first day i planned to use the train for my commutation. I just had to get in at one station and get down at the next station, but i had to get down at the opposite side. And unfortunately i had to miss that and get down at the 2nd station as i did the mistake of moving to the other side after the station arrived. Only later that i understood that you have to ask the people to make way for you right from the beginning. And the people here are so nice that they make way even though it is difficult for them to stand. You never know how one gets in and gets out, but that keeps happenning in every station. One just needs to stand in the way and
within minutes you are inside the train. Within a very short span of 20 secs, all the people are out and in. I was simply blowed off by the beaming energy shown by the Mumbaikars. Hats off to the Mumbai locals!!!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

It is great - u learnt it early :)

Ravishankar said...

It happens...

Unknown said...

This just reminds me of an older post of mine: Mumbai's lifeline.

Ravishankar said...

ya went thr tht...