Meeting Komal in Byculla
Komal starts from Byculla. Shutter times are on her flyer.
Rani Baug shuts at sunset; Byculla does not. Komal starts from here, the stretch between the old zoo and the Mazgaon docks where town turns into the mill belt. She is Indian, 23, speaks English and Hindi, and sits on the cheapest level of the flyer, ₹30,000 for the night till 6 AM. The same money buys the same time at her place.
Byculla is Victorian Mumbai with the paint peeling: the station and its bridge, the museum in the gardens, Gloria Church at the junction, Clare Road and Sir JJ Road running down to Nagpada and up toward Mumbai Central. Mazgaon hill and Dockyard Road are quiet and residential; the towers on the old mill land have brought new hotels. Komal can be at any of them, and goes south into town or north through Mumbai, to Navi Mumbai and Thane, taxi inside the rate.
