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| | A trip to the Kanheri Caves |
 | | Our home was also right across from Churchgate station, a major suburban train station which according to Royston Ellis in ‘India by rail’, has no less than 91 trains arriving or leaving during the three-hour peak rush-hour periods. |
| | Indeed, this half day visit turned out to be one of the highlights of our trip, and not because of the beautiful caves which were even more magnificent than we had expected, but because of what happened at Churchgate. |
| | As we rattled through the suburbs of Mumbai, we were distracted by the constant theater of everyday life along the tracks, men washing themselves, women combing each other’s hair, a teacher addressing a whole class of smartly dressed school girls sitting within three yards of the thundering train. |
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