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A penny for his thoughts

Photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri's exhibition, The Commuters, attempts to document "Mumbai's faceless working class". He tells Sowmya Rajaram what the 50-odd portraits of men sitting opposite him in the first class compartment mean

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How did the project come about?
It came primarily out of a sense of terrible boredom during commuting. After I moved to Thane in 2001, and began to take the 10.03 local daily, the idea of capturing, in portrait form, pictures of those who sat opposite me, began as a whim.

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