Do you ever catch yourself waiting at the bus stop, wondering about the other people standing in the queue? Like, perhaps, the gentleman ahead of you holding a bouquet of flowers—where is he headed, whom are the flowers for? Or the dabbawala at the train station: is there a beloved waiting for him at the end of a long day, someone who packs his dabba with love? 

It’s these fleeting moments that are brought to life by the illustrator-writer duo, Paul Fernandes and Rahul Mehrotra, in their new book, 11 Limited. In a series of illustrated short stories set along the 11 Limited bus route between Colaba and Bandra East, Fernandes and Mehrotra imagine the lives of the myriad of characters we might come across during our daily commute, who call this city home.