Seeing the title of this post, you must have guessed what this post is about. Well no prizes for right guesses, but congratulations!! You have guessed it right, it’s about Mumbai. Let me share with you my experience of four days stay in Mumbai. Let me share with you my experience of four days stay in Mumbai. The occasion was an international seminar in IIT Mumbai, so being the maths secretary of college, I was told to take of team of 6 from college to attend it. Let’s start and what best could be than to start with the local train. They say local trains Mumbai ki dhadkan hai.
“yeh ha Mumbai, yeh hai Mumbai, yeh hai Mumbai, meri jaan...”
This was the song along with little thought which came to my mind...when I successfully managed to get into the Mumbai local at the peak hours as they say...’managed’ because getting into and out of the local is no less than a task assigned to you...hmmmm..now that if you have managed to get in taking all the pain surviving the thrust and push by the people getting down is also not just a step from the train...In fact, all you have to do is align yourself with the line of passengers getting down and before you realise you already have got down...isn’t that coll!! I was new to this city and the first experience of local was something that will remain with me for years to come.
After reaching there, I came to know that what we see in movies is real Mumbai, though didn’t get to see that ‘Bhai stuff’, but everything else was true. We know that life in Mumbai is fast. Mumbai has forgotten to walk. Yes, it is true; you’ll find people moving in a hurry to reach their destination in time. So, when people wake up in the morning, the one thing over their mind is to reach their work-place in time. In all this early morning rush, they don’t get time to pray (might be...). But, that doesn’t mean they are atheists. They do pray, but were...? Well, they pray while travelling. Yes, in busy local trains, where one hardly gets place to stand, you’ll find people taking out their spiritual books (in the tiniest form available on market) and start reading. Some people who have already by-hearted the whole book, just recite in mind.
Mumbai is the highest tax paying city in India. The real-estate people are biggest profit-makers. Mumbai is a amalgamation of different religion in Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Parsis.....and each religion with their different cultures, thus making it a great cosmopolitan city of India. This is my shallow insight into the lives of Mumbaikar’s.
Thank you for reading.
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