On July 11, 2006, bombs on Mumbai’s suburban trains killed 209 people. Western Railway restored services the same night. The next morning, “Mumbai woke up to suburban trains running as usual,” The Free Press Journal later recalled.
After a stampede at Elphinstone Road station in 2017, DNA wrote that the spirit of Mumbai, the city’s famed resilience, “unfortunately has become a cliche to justify official apathy.”