A week after the Mumbai train blasts on 11 July, 2006, in which ultimately 188 people lost their lives, The Indian Express began a series documenting each of the lives lost – their dreams and their dilemmas, their hopes and struggles – in an attempt, however small, to restore the dignity of their lives’ purpose. Most of those who lost their lives were the sole earning members of their families.
This volume, a compilation of the life stories of the 188 people who lost their lives, seeks now to consolidate their memory in the form of a book. Equally, it is a tribute to the indefatigable spirit of Mumbai and its citizenry, the ordinary people on the street, who worked tirelessly through the night to help the wounded, the stranded and the missing. But for whom it was business as usual the next morning.
This book also looks at the major leads in this case in the investigation that followed.
The reporters of The Indian Express have revisited the families of some of the afflicted and bring us reports on how they are struggling to cope.– some with the deaths in the family, some others, with crippling injuries, for whom 11 July 2006 is frozen in time.
Author - The Express Team,
Publisher - Harper Collins,
Format - Hardback.







