Mumbai: Welcome to Mumbai, where every morning millions board the local train network with a prayer and a death wish. On Monday, the city’s most dependable slaughter machine claimed four more lives (and still counting) —commuters flung off overcrowded coaches, their backpacks brushing fatally against each other near Mumbra. One of the dead was a GRP constable.

Irony? Not in Mumbai. Here, even those meant to protect end up as casualties of criminal apathy. And right on cue, the government woke up—like it always does—after the corpses were cleared off the tracks. Enter the Railway Minister and his band of grim-faced........

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