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Parekh Road, Malad West




If you live in Malad West and use the local train to get to work, you will be greeted every day at your home station by the loudspeaker blasting messages about MM Lassi and Sweets, 7 days a week.

Except for one day of the week.

On Tuesday evenings, the MM Sweets advertisements are drowned by the sounds of bells ringing. That's the special day at the Hanuman shrine outside the station. It's popular among lonely, single men, mostly from the cow belt, who do the dirty work for us in this city to send a big portion of their earnings back home, to people I imagine, resemble the lonely lady in the sticker you find in autos saying, Tum Ghar Kab Aoge?

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