On a footpath outside Churchgate station, Bombay, India

On a footpath outside Churchgate station, Bombay, India
Hope lays supine beneath a soothsayer’s advice about wearing rings and beads. As Bombay roars past, the man sleeps close to footfalls of pedestrians and the façade of a high-rise. His dreams in the city of dreams will probably remain just that...but the brazen optimism in the face of adversity was what stopped me in the tracks.