Rain Rain came again!!!

Its 28th July 2008, I am sitting in my Airoli office, and really bored! The weather outside is wonderful and romantic!! Its being raining in Mumbai for last 2 days now, and 2day its worst, & so, other branches left by 4:30pm! People are all waiting here for the time to turn to 6:45pm, so that every1 gets to go home! Rain has become a part n parcel of Mumbaites. But over the years what has being more palpable is the water logging!!!

If I recall, during the time when I used 2 go 2 school, every monsoon we used to just have 1 day when school would shut down during after like 3-4 lectures and all of us used to get all blissful & walk back home in rain and waist deep water logged!! But now a days, its like become 1 se in every month of all 4 months of monsoon! It’s sad to see, even when we say the country is moving ahead towards becoming an super power, something as necessary as drainage system is going from bad to worst! I still think of a good rainy day as a beautiful, quixotic day, but the fact is, there r millions on the streets of the city who will very easily loose their homes, worst are those who don’t have a house and die of cold and the water - born diseases! It’s really shame thinking about the current state of affairs of this country where 24 blasts happen within span of 48 hrs, and the citie’s financial capital has no choice but to shut down, due to rains.

An Evening on the streets of Colaba..

Saturday 17th May 2008 was a remarkable day for my sis MSA! Reason - 1st so called "outing" in the whole of 2 months vaccation she is being "enjoying"!!! So we headed to do what girls are best known to have done, apart from crying & bitching (thankfully, we arnt best in any of them) SHOPPING!!!
Its like such a stress buster this "Shopping" thingy!!! Seriously!! We left home at about 4, and reached the place @ 6, after traveling like more than 30 kms, to this not so small street called "Colaba" rite behind Gate Way of India, Mumbai! So it all started with searching clothes for her and ended with buying loads of junk jewllery! The "search for the best" attitude makes it all the more exciting! & yea for 1se you can decide what u think is the rite price!!!

But more than all this, the whole street is full of firangs, trying to buy Souvenirs from India, cheap jewelley, the cafe LEO, a place where u apparently get the world's best Crispy chicken! The small roadside shops are really colourful & even if its really humid in Mumbai @ this time of the yr, its not so bad to spend like 3 yrs on that street!!! Its something about the place that makes you wanna come back!!! Its a strange mixed pot of culture and kind of people out there....

You walk like 1 street behind this place, you land up near hotel Taj Mahal and the Gateway Of India! Thtz 1 place you shouldnt be on a Saturday evening!! Its like any busy stn of Mumbai! But the only difference is, this time the run is not cause 2 earn their bread, but 2 getout of that run!!!

Cheers to the spirit of the City that never stops running !!!