Amchi Mumbai

First Mastishk update, nearly 870 ppl played my Vox Populli game for a week, making it one of the hottest games amongst B-school students in India. U love it when people appreciate your efforts, when they discuss government spending, taxes n their impacts on growth rate.... Phew!!! all those formulae worked and worked magic, though ofcourse people had their grudges as "sale mere sare indicators badhe hai phir bhi popularity utar gayi"..... O, how much I loved to explain the 'intricacies' of the game n " u must think about it in different perspective".....

Meanwhile I had an uneventful Navratri and Dusra. Atleast in Surat, in my engg. college I could enjoy out n watch all Dandiya's, though I didn't had the luck to play it with my gal... par yahan pe, we r in such remote place of Mumbai that it will take proper planning to reach to any Dandiya n after tht u will have to pay much more.......

Certainly Mumbaikars can't enjoy the Dandiya with so much crowded environs, u can't move in a circle properly let alone playing Dandiya. Seriously Mumbai is one cramped place, u go anywhere n u find ppl, literally in heaps....
Hell! even couples can't njoy a private kiss out here n have to do it in public.... There was much hue n cry about obscenity in Talav-Pani, one of the still existing beautiful lakes of Thane.

But tell me where else can they go, in local where it would take an age to reach ur partners lips, which r so jam packed that u would be lucky if u can wipe sweat on your forehead.

Or in the Best buses, naam ki hi best hai yaar.... Not a single time I was able to get a seat in the buses that go from L&T to Mulund n I tell you, u get a bus per minute for 12 hours each day.
Or on the polluted streets where hawkers take any nook or corner available.

I bet u 100 bucks to walk on any footpaths of Mumbai for a stretch of 1 KM. People walk on roads like zombies returning from their office while autos n buses keep on honking their horns for sides. There is a limit to what a city can absorb n there is a word called 'planning' in dictionary........
Hope our Mumbai administrators realize it some-day n we have 'decent' living with 'breathabl'e air, 'walkable' roads and 'commutable' rails n buses.

Seriously when other day somebody told me tht Mumbai is dead as far as any further develpment is concerned, I wondered n will have to accept that he had lot of merit in his argument.....

Still Mumbai is Mumbai, n I would love it anytime........