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Why I love Mumbai!!
A Delhi-ite originally and I live in Mumbai for more than five years now. The 5+ yrs had commenced with an acute awareness (& arrogance) of the classic Delhi - Mumbai paradox – power v/s money, neta-land v/s bollywood, intellect v/s glitter, butter chicken v/s crabs ‘n shrimps.
Inevitably, the transformation crept in, getting comfortable & yes, growing in love with a city where I’d chosen to live and work. A Mumbai that allowed one anonymity despite living in the busiest co-operative housing societies, the security of stepping out and hailing a cab after midnight without evoking raised eyebrows and attention of neighborhood goons, the pleasure of the alternative train ride if you were running late for a meeting, the inimitable Mumbaikar’s attention & affection for anything that’s Bollywood, the pride with which each impressionable Mumbaikar would narrate how a certain (hot) Bollywood star was once their classmate in college, the unquestioning autorickshaw ride from the smallest to the longest distance, the biggest to the smallest order (fresh chapattis!!) that you can call for at your doorstep after a hard day’s work, the fresh bakeries and the lovely feel of the Christmas season in the quaint Anglo- localities tucked away in corners, the broker's relentless promise of a sea view even if from the far left corner of the bathroom window...
Am I being trite or going overboard? Have some of us faced different (more difficult) situations? Yes to all of the above. But in an appraisal of averages, this is quintessential Mumbai, and that’s why unique, lovable and irreplaceable for so many and thus ‘Maximum’ in so many more ways than Mr. Mehta tabled.
I love you Mumbai, and many of us ex-Delhiites who are now in Mumbai -of choice- have chosen you for these uniques. Keep it up Mumbai and allow me to explore you in my progress to a decade in your waves!!
Nivedita
niveditad@gmail.com
301, The Nest
St. Raque Road
Bandra West
Mumbai 400050
Why I love Mumbai!!
A Delhi-ite originally and I live in Mumbai for more than five years now. The 5+ yrs had commenced with an acute awareness (& arrogance) of the classic Delhi - Mumbai paradox – power v/s money, neta-land v/s bollywood, intellect v/s glitter, butter chicken v/s crabs ‘n shrimps.
Inevitably, the transformation crept in, getting comfortable & yes, growing in love with a city where I’d chosen to live and work. A Mumbai that allowed one anonymity despite living in the busiest co-operative housing societies, the security of stepping out and hailing a cab after midnight without evoking raised eyebrows and attention of neighborhood goons, the pleasure of the alternative train ride if you were running late for a meeting, the inimitable Mumbaikar’s attention & affection for anything that’s Bollywood, the pride with which each impressionable Mumbaikar would narrate how a certain (hot) Bollywood star was once their classmate in college, the unquestioning autorickshaw ride from the smallest to the longest distance, the biggest to the smallest order (fresh chapattis!!) that you can call for at your doorstep after a hard day’s work, the fresh bakeries and the lovely feel of the Christmas season in the quaint Anglo- localities tucked away in corners, the broker's relentless promise of a sea view even if from the far left corner of the bathroom window...
Am I being trite or going overboard? Have some of us faced different (more difficult) situations? Yes to all of the above. But in an appraisal of averages, this is quintessential Mumbai, and that’s why unique, lovable and irreplaceable for so many and thus ‘Maximum’ in so many more ways than Mr. Mehta tabled.
I love you Mumbai, and many of us ex-Delhiites who are now in Mumbai -of choice- have chosen you for these uniques. Keep it up Mumbai and allow me to explore you in my progress to a decade in your waves!!
Nivedita
niveditad@gmail.com
301, The Nest
St. Raque Road
Bandra West
Mumbai 400050
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