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…
9 comments:
'Mumbai,the land of dreams'. Nice blog. Your style of writing is really impressive.
Once upon time Chacha Nehru said about poet Ataljee:
"Right man in wrong party"
Now
Govind says:
"Ronny, right man in wrong field"
Hmmm... Felt good to read nice things about Mumbai :)
Still you got to know a lot about this speedy dreamland... beaches, CCDs, Malls, Markets, tasty food, happening crowd, busy streets... god... you will lost yourself... n fall in LOVE with it... "Jara hatke, jara bachke... YEH HAI MUMBAI MERI JAAN!!!" :)
Nice Bolg DUDE!!! Keep Writing…
--AShh
‘Live and Let Live culture’ - Mumbaikar.
Felt nice to know good things about MUMBAI from so called Punekar :)
Ya i know next time u will explore mumbai...Thanks from all MUMBAIKAR 4 this blog :)
Gr8 going dear :)
Hey Rohan,
U must be the first person who said everything positive about Mumbai on the first visit.. cause i knw many who had an aversion to Mumbai on first visit.. including me :)
I remember in Aug-2002 I first came to mumbai, with all packed bags.. with all the reverse route blocked.. first few days were worst: staying with relatives (so called and remembered only for tht trip), small rooms where t whole family stays n survive, crowded locals n stations like ants running for a small cube of sugar but later on i realized that this is t beauty of this Place, it teaches you to survive in any damn difficult situations n gets you energies to follow your dreams.. Now i m a proud child adored in a Mumbai's family.. :)
Love Mumbai n so ur blog too .. waiting for ur next visit.. n so next blog on Mumbai too ..
Mumbai rocks!! :-)
nice post!
Shivneri is just awesome....
it seems to be made for ppl to look out of the window and explore :-)
thanks for your comment..
keep reading..:-)
@Govind, Radnya, Ash: Thanks for the valuable comments.
@Kanchan: Yes its true i got all the good experiences.. Thanks for the appreciation, will surely meet you in Mumbai..
@Mugdha: Hey Thanks Mugdha and you are welcome here too.. keep rocking n writing..
Roso,
Make sure to call as a "Aamachi Mumbai".
Cheers!
Mumbai ahech jhakaas.. so miss that Mumbai experience .. and also those pune-mumbai trips..
anyway nice blog rohan.. keep writing..
Dear Rohan, Mumbai is indeed great in the dimensions you explained but my personal experience was wayward I appreciated the Local train service & BEST service but had a radical experience in dealing with the Auto Rickshaw guys, i was exasperated to observe them preferring girls over other commuters! Anyways it was a good blog keep the good work going!
All the best!
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