At the Shivaji Stadium Metro Station, while waiting for the metro, I was recalling some random incidents and of course the people who crossed my mind knowingly-unknowingly.
A Few days ago, while roaming around Connaught place, I witnessed too many usual & unusual things. By тАШUsualтАЩ I mean the basics I’ve been neglecting throughout my life. A lady living on a footpath, along with her two burner gas stove & her forlorn husband- battling from illness, lying beside her on a two layered bedsheet, covered from top to bottom in a thin wool multicolored blanket. тАЬSurvival isn’t a choice,тАЭ indeed. She took out a pan, put it on the gas stove and adjusted herself to make a cup of tea. That, that is a day in her life. Whatever she was doing out of her content was enough for their survival.
I walked past her but she remained still in my core memory like a very unusual thing.
Now that the metro has arrived, the lady left the place. The road is a track now and the lady is the metro.









