The Mumbai suburban train network transports 7.5 million people around the city each day. Commuters travelling from the distant suburbs into the heart of Mumbai usually spend over four hours of their day on the rails. That means that there's a lot of time to observe fellow passengers. Loud bhajan groups, card-playing uncles and working women chopping vegetables for their evening meal are not uncommon sights on these trains.

Photo journalist Anushree Fadnavis, who works with Indus Images and has been traveling by train for over 10 years used her phone to capture these moments. Here are a few of them.

This is Lakshmi age 25 years. She is holding Samadhan who is 5 months old. She sells accessories in the train. She has another son who is quite old and helps her out. It is a common sight in the Mumbai local train for us to see women who drape a piece of cloth around their shoulders and hold their babies in it while at work . I have met few who have around 1 month old baby around them and are back to work when they should be taking rest post labour. Last year I was at a station when I saw a woman was giving birth to a child in the middle of the road and offers around her covered the scene by holding  a saree. The father could not get a taxi to take the wife to the hospital so I helped them to get to the hospital. Maternal health post labour in India is really bad especially for people who have low economic conditions. These women in local trains though are quite at ease while at work. Don't know how they work in the crowded local trains with such small babies around them. #traindiaries #trains #mumbai #mumbaidiaries #dailylifeindia #dailylife #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #everydayindia #everydaymumbai #ReportageSpotlight

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Shama a crossdresser poses for a picture in the Mumbai local train.  I made this picture last year. I had stayed back to catch the last train that leaves from Churchgate. The platform was relatively empty. The last train had stationed itself on the platform. Few minutes before the train was about to leave I noticed a group of Transgenders and  crossdressers. I followed them. I asked if I could click few pictures. When I was taking a few pictures of Shama I noticed the others in the background were changing clothes. They usually do that in the train. I am guessing to save time or they were tired of their party clothes. They were heading back from a party. They never give the details. After speaking to me for sometime they felt uneasy. They asked if I was from media. I told them yes and assured them that these pictures are  for a story I am working on . Later they asked me not to click more pictures. So I was talking to them for sometime. They got off after a few stops. Alot of people ask me why I talk to them, my only answer to them is that they are humans too. Very few people talk to them in the train,  most people  ignore them. I wish to find out more about them and their community. This is a work in progress. This picture is a repost from my story #traindiaries from @katha_collective. #traindiaries #trains #mumbai #mumbaidiaries #dailylifeindia #dailylife #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #everydaymumbai #ReportageSpotlight

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