Mahendra Vinayak Agavni, 45, a resident of Kurla in Mumbai has had a tough day in the city’s suburban trains. It’s an ordeal he faces pretty much everywhere he goes. Agavni, a peon in the Indian Navy, is a dwarf or a ‘little person’, as they are known. Standing 3 feet 5 inches tall, for close to 20 years now, he has been taking the train to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal (CST) daily. No mean task for anyone, let alone a person of short stature, he has figured out his own way to manoeuvre through the crowds, “I hold on to people’s bags and let other people push me into the compartment… Everything I do is an ordeal. There is no place that’s not a struggle to get in and out of for people like me,” he tells us.

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