Mumbai Roads!

all is not sundry...

aight so the rains are excellent and the city has an uniqe and unibiquitious din about it... but all is not sundry... mumbai doesn't have roads.. ok so maybe I'm being a bit harsh.. but maybe I'm not.. mumbai has potholes.. copiuos amounts of potholes in all shapes sizes and forms.. in fact mumbai's speciality is potholes.. aight aight I do relaise the 26/7 rains were abnormally disasterous.. but still..
ok so i go to pickup my car from this place called vaashinaka, jus a bit beyond vaashi station, its in navi mumbai and its very far! which means its 37km from my house. and it took me 2.5 hours to do that... and not because I am new to mumbai and don't know the roads like the back of my hand, and not because the traffic was atrocious.. it was.. but because there were no roads.. most of it was potholes but in some lucky places it was mud.. lots of mud.. so I was supposed to take this 'left turn' except that the turning was no more than a bit of mud sliding a bit to the left and leading to some potholes.. and I was supposed to figure that out.. and i got lost! twice!
hmmm.. ok letting go is good.. very good.. breathe...

mumbai the city thats alive.. thats got magic.. potholes and mud...

good morning mumbai!

Mumbai Rains!

sheher ki dhup si bewakt hi dhalegee,
kyun humko yaad aae woh*

so i've been in mumbai now for about three days, and it has been raining since then... but not to say its 26/7 all over again... sometimes it slows down, drizzles... sometimes the wind picks it up and it sheets across like a fine spray, sometimes its blotchy and you want to jus get out of it.. but its been raining everyday.. I have a luvly place here, i.e its free and its on the 12th floor and very clean... my room faces eastand its got a large wall to wall window, luvly cityscape view... havent seen the sun yet, I'm beggining to wonder about that whole thing about rotation and revolution... no sun!! in three mornings!! okok not panickin..
there is a great thing about mumbai though, its alive.. its buzzing.. it has soul, and the rains play their part, they contribuites their verse... its makes everything come alive more so... the humdum.. the fruit markets and street hawkers, the traffis jams and the late night sojurns back home.. it all looks like a glazed din... wet and brimming...

mumbai rains...

also it seeps into everything.. it drips form everywhere.. its all pervasive.. you cant escape it even if you want to.. luckily most of the times i dont want to...

good night mumbai!
cf: Jaane - Ost Chameli