Bombay experienced some of the worst flooding due to a cloudburst on 26th July 2005. There were heroiic stories of citizens helping each other in these difficult times. But there were a lot of unsung heroes who went out of their way on their job to help people.

A few of them are the 53 BEST bus conductors and drivers seen in the photograph.

As the waters rose inside a bus, driver Ramdas Kakade and conductor Laxman Mokashi opened the rear window (the emergency exit) of the bus.

Using seats and ropes, they made a small bridge with a truck parked behind the bus and helped the 40 passengers, including 13 children, reach the roof, where they spent the next 10 hours [ link ]

The Cloudburst of 2005 and the events in its aftermath would linger in memory for a long time.

Thus for these public transport employees to do what they did is really commendable.