Rush due to early leave from offices

Due to incessant rain on 23rd July 2013 offices in Mumbai asked their employees to leave early due to which a sudden rush could be seen at station.

Incessant rain caused this sudden rush

Staircase with full capacity

A staircase of a local station is used to its full capacity during peak hours (office timings). If you stand in a crowd then you don’t need to walk, the crowd will make you walk.

Crowded staircase of a local station 

Double risk travel during rain

Traveling in Mumbai local during peak hours is always risky as crowding let some people with only option to hang and at footstep. But during rain it doubles the risk as the footstep and handle bar turn wet and slippery. 

Double risk travel 

Drug abuse in rag pickers

In some of the locals it is shocking to see the rag pickers doing drugs. They used the cheapest method, the ink remover. Ink remover is made up of substance with generate vapors. Inhaled for long it effects perception.

Rag picker child doing drugs in local

Inhaling ink remover vapors

A cheap drug - Ink remover

Inside of a local at peak hours

There has been always a struggle to get inside of a local train at peak hours. But getting inside is no war over. The space inside used to be so crammed that you can not slip your own hand in your pocket. Even all the hands do not get the luxury to hold on to the handles bars hanging above.

Crammed inside of a Mumbai local

Too many hands for handle bars