Day 2: Mumbai Today we met our guide Freni and spent the day seeing the city and tracing the three Jewish communities in India and their presence in Mumbai. Freni is of Zoroastrian background, around my age and delightfully well-read. We connected with her immediately, finding her warm, honest and […]
Daily Archives: December 24, 2013
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Day 1 India’s largest city, Mumbai has 13 million people. The trains alone carry six million people per day—equivalent to the entire population of Israel. Mumbai trains were built to hold 1700 passengers, but they often carry three times that number, leading to such notorious crowding that railways have given […]