It was my one small trip to Mumbai, no time to wander around or have bhel at choupati, but still I tried to peep in every commuters mind and tried to read his Mumbai…
In my small expedition, I learnt that Mumbai is all about people, running but disciplined people, who have their schedules fixed from 5.30AM to 10.30PM, they have plan for everything, their enjoyments too. After studying their life, you really feel that, you are living much relaxed life, but I have not seen a single Mumbaikar complaining about that. We all have heard it at least once that “Mumbai fulfills everyone’s dream”, but we see after getting down on the station that, it makes everyone run a lot for their dreams.
The best and the most exiting peculiarity of Mumbai is its distinct Local train, which epitomizes the complete life cycle of Mumbai. Every neophyte landing to this ‘roller coaster’ city gets his first life time experience, when he is thrown out of the train on the wrong station. All credit goes to this local train for explicably teaching the ‘Live and Let Live culture’ of Mumbai, the loading and unloading of the local at station is the perfect example of it.
Mumbai has its mark in everything, from the ditto looking old buildings to the huge skyscrapers, from the local train commuter to the BMW owners; everyone has their own identity and they are happy with that. Although as a visitor you think, this city does not have time to notice you, spend some time here and you will come to know, it does welcome you. Mumbaikar’s are truly helping, you get this experience often when you ask for the address to somewhere, though I got a lot of new birds who innocently admit, “I am also new here”. One more good thing which I would explicitly mention is about the ‘autowallas’ of Mumbai, they never charged me more, taking advantage of me being new here, I often have altercation in Pune for this.
While coming back to Pune, looking out of the window of Shivneri, I was really feeling that there is still a lot to explore here, I am grateful to all, to the Police kaka showing me the way on Dadar station, to the friends for feeding me really nice food, to the locals for getting me to the destination with all the bones in place. It is really a dream city which shows you every color of life. See you soon.
Love you Mumbai…
Rohan…
