After some years, I found myself taking one of Mumbai’s local trains to go from one end of the city to another.\u00a0 I also ended up tweeting about everything I experienced during that journey.\u00a0 This short poem has evolved from those tweets…<\/p>\n
LED displays
\nImproved ventilation
\nFaster fans
\nAnd cushioned seats
\nMobile phones
\nSeem to be with all of you
\nEverything looks new in a Mumbai Local<\/p>\n
Shoe-shine boys
\nAH Wheeler
\nThe smell of popcorn
\nEunuchs onboard
\nPocket radios for some
\nAnd a Ray Ban too!
\nLife sure is interesting on a Mumbai Local<\/p>\n
Abusive cop Fast train screams past After some years, I found myself taking one of Mumbai’s local trains to go from one end of the city to another.\u00a0 I also ended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7,13],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-india","tag-life","tag-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nScared little kid
\nGirlfriend-Boyfriend
\nAnd an office exec
\nVegetable vendors
\nAnd a Parsi bawa <\/em>too
\nEvery <\/em>one takes the Mumbai Local<\/p>\n
\nMarine Lines\u00a0sea breeze
\nI arrive at Churchgate
\nBy a window seat
\nReached in no time
\nIn 6 rupees too!
\nIs there anything better than a Mumbai Local?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"