This is my starting point, Dadar station. Countless times have I passed this place. As a young woman of 18 going off on field trips, or as a young mother, 10 years later with a baby on my hip. And in between those two identities, there was the other me: fearless, drug rep for a pharmaceutical company walking through the crowded platforms, armed with an umbrella, weighed down by samples of tonics and appetite stimulants to be sold into slums where my souls twisted at the sight of empty bellies.
No, this is not the setting of Slum Dog Millionaire, I say to those who ask or gawk. This is my home, this is where I still live. In my heart, in my quiet moments.
Noisy, crowded, busy, Dadar. Mumbai Pin Code 400 014
Come see me sometime, I know the best place for chai.
Stehle, M. (2008). Psychogeography as teaching tool: Troubled travels through an experimental first-year seminar. Journal of educational and informational studies, 4(2), 1-25.
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