Bandra-worli sea link, worli sea face, marine drive, Powai lake, Bandra reclamation ... these are some places where you will see Mumbai rejoice in rains and Then we get to see places like Andheri-Kurla Road, Sakinaka, Dadar flower market, Elphisten bridge, JVLR, L&T and you will realize once again this is the same Mumbai which looks disastrous when it pours.
The point is not about what you like and what you don't ? but its about the psyche of every Mumbaikar who smiles even in that traffic, listening to mushy romantic tracks on FM. We are cursed to stay in match boxes but when we get out of it we do not care in which part of the city we stay, we have started enjoying those traffic prone- to and fro- office rides. Nowadays, to (in Hindi) if I don't get stuck in traffic, I don't feel like I have spent the time with my city.
There are friends, family, relatives but there is this different relationship with this city as well and the travelling time is my time spent with my city. I like to be alone on this travel time, Don't like to take calls, to surf and to do whatever which people feel; should be done on the way.
Some one asked me the other day, "what is kept over here in Mumbai, go out some where...get life" Its definitely not about India n Deshbhakti and all but I am just in deeply love with this place which makes me feel like "ME" just truly deeply "Me". Messy yet serine... disastrous yet eternal... love you Mumbai...
