Surviving in Bombay

Living in such a mess and chaos, where people simply don’t have any boundaries and like treating everyone as their family members, trying to find out what is happening in other’s life you can either go mad trying to fight it or let it go. There have been many situations when I simply wanted to shout: “Stop, that’s not the way to do things” but I quickly realized it won’t make much sense. Therefore I have decided to go with the flow and accept the way things are! I have to admit it makes one’s life much easier! I kind of started enjoying it!

Bombay is the city where…

I have recently found it somewhere in the Internet, in most cases I agree with these statements!

• Like a mother whose heart always has space for any number of children, Mumbai has crossed all limits & adjusted herself to accommodate all those who beseeched her
• A confluence of many varied cultures of the country – a mini India in the true sense
• Where two natives (Maharashtrians) tend to speak Mumbaiyya with each other, instead of Marathi
• Which does not rest for a moment even after being hit by worst disasters – riots, bomb-blasts, floods, strikes, accidents, terror-attacks
• Where there is always scope for adjusting one more commuter continuously even in a jam-packed local, defying the laws of Mass & Volume
• Where distance is measured in minutes/hours or in rupees
• Where your driving skill ought to achieve a precision of 0.5mm (bumper-to-bumper) with 0% tolerance, even while manouvering around a pothole
• Where you need to be skilled in jumping off/on a bus/train few secs before it stops, if you happen to be in the first row near the door while alighting/boarding a bus/train
• Where 8 people can share a 6ftx6ft kholi & can still make space for more
• Where you don’t need a reason to play/talk cricket
• Where you don’t need your own vehicle to commute from one end of the city to another at any time (thanks to the nearly 24hr coverage of BEST buses, Locals, black-n-yellow metered rides)
• Where the cheapest, quickest & most exciting shopping of varied items can be done in the train itself