As soon as I saw the sheets of rain pouring down outside my window, I decided to leave at 11 am, giving me plenty of time to make it to a 2 pm meeting at work. Or so I thought.

The journey from my home in Kalyan to the office at Parel usually takes about an hour, but all my calculations were thrown out the window as soon as I reached Kalyan station and saw the empty tracks and crowded platforms.