Where time stops. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The railway station’s façade is tiny, cute, toy-like, comprising of two windows and a short flight of staircase. The foyer inside is dusty, littered with heaps of dry leaves. A part of the wall looks discoloured, as if dampened by the monsoon. A black panel is painted over with a series of place-names, some of which are misspelled: “Barar Square, Shivaji Bridge, Tilak Bridge, Narayana Vihar, Shakur Basti, Daya Basti, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Rohtak, Sadar Bazar, Patel Nagar, Lodhi Colony, Nangloi, Bahadurgarh, Gurgaon, Tughalkabad.” No ticket to any destination is being sold at the moment. A dusty brown curtain has screened off the ticket counter’s long window. This afternoon, Lodhi Colony railway station