Cyrus Daruwala is your quintessential Mumbaikar — all about the crowd. As if it were already not funny how we cram ourselves everyday into the spiteful gunk called Mumbai local trains, now we have become the butt of Daruwala’s joke too. Daruwala has been able to etch out 35 unique characters based on his local train excursions (it’s too long a distance) into a humour book that include the starer, dada, daredevil, judger, fishy, hoarder — as Daruwala’s Facebook page aptly says, ‘Mumbai’s local locals’. Daruwala with his book, I Take This Train Too, marks his foray into witty humourous writing, which is a given, considering he has been an adman for the last seven years.

The Dada or the bully — someone always ready to pick a fight