This is a document of what I have seen, experienced and heard when I traveled on the No. 9 compartment of the Mumbai Local trains. There are many things about the Locals that surprise me every time I travel in one. There are so many interesting people that you meet in the compartment. They are friends who meet only in the locals, who share their lives for the time they travel together and then go their own way. There are many incidents that made me want to do visual ethnography such as experiencing a “bhajan” group (groups which sing religious songs) in a men’s compartment, hearing of groups of men who meet on the same local everyday so as to play cards, Women who have formed groups in the train and have kitty parties which are named after the time or number of the local trains etc. I wanted to see this different world and experience every bit of it. When I started going by train I realised that it was too vast a subject to cover so I started concentrating on the women’s compartment only and that’s when I realised that its a small world in itself and had many kinds of incidents that I could write on.