Conundrum of Choices
Stories are good and no one demands and excites the listeners than the great canvas of life called Mumbai ! Its the art connoisseur 's dream, the ultimate movie making theme. It has excited millions of people around the world and continues to do so despite the dark underbelly and the recent excitement among the "other" aspects of the world.
This is what I was carrying a torch about when i was about to enter Mumbai for the first time. I am not new to strangeness and new things. I have stayed outside my home comforts for such a long time now that, it has become rather dreary to sit at home and relax. I must admit though, even after staying for two long months in the heat of Delhi, I was a little anxious about moving to Mumbai. Off all the things heard and seen one tends to remember the dark times rather than the good and happy ones. And Mumbai even though renowned for its safety for women did not have such a bright presence in my mind castle.
It has been anything but dreary and drab , these two weeks. I can honestly say that there is a lot to like and love about Mumbai. There is so much of life over here that it has become difficult for me not to compare between the two mega-cities - Delhi and Mumbai. A good friend of mine once ( before I had gone to either of the two aforementioned places ) told me that people like either Delhi or Mumbai. I have already been to Delhi and fell in love with its beauty. There is nothing like the rush that you get when you walk the Janpath marg, Safdarjung marg, walk the path from India Gate to the Presidential Home. Walk around the parliament. The smell and aroma of the power in these hallowed grounds is so intoxicating and addictive that I cannot even dream about explaining the feeling.
This might have been one of my "worries" before i had even entered Mumbai. "I had liked, no, LOVED Delhi". And many people told me that there is just one option out of Delhi and Mumbai. I had ran out of my options before I even got to sense the options. Now I had to dislike Mumbai !!
How can one dislike anything without even trying and how could I like Mumbai MORE than how much I liked the rush of Delhi??? I am at a dilemma, I hope another week and the time I leave Mumbai, I would actually realize what are my exact feelings towards this wondrous creation of man and god, good and evil, poverty and crazy riches. I will have to come up with a suitable response for Mumbai, otherwise even I might be disappointed with what I have to say about this city!!
Give me a week before I discern my feelings of the past two weeks, or lets hope for a mind blowing eye opener which allows me to make up my mind faster!
This is what I was carrying a torch about when i was about to enter Mumbai for the first time. I am not new to strangeness and new things. I have stayed outside my home comforts for such a long time now that, it has become rather dreary to sit at home and relax. I must admit though, even after staying for two long months in the heat of Delhi, I was a little anxious about moving to Mumbai. Off all the things heard and seen one tends to remember the dark times rather than the good and happy ones. And Mumbai even though renowned for its safety for women did not have such a bright presence in my mind castle.
It has been anything but dreary and drab , these two weeks. I can honestly say that there is a lot to like and love about Mumbai. There is so much of life over here that it has become difficult for me not to compare between the two mega-cities - Delhi and Mumbai. A good friend of mine once ( before I had gone to either of the two aforementioned places ) told me that people like either Delhi or Mumbai. I have already been to Delhi and fell in love with its beauty. There is nothing like the rush that you get when you walk the Janpath marg, Safdarjung marg, walk the path from India Gate to the Presidential Home. Walk around the parliament. The smell and aroma of the power in these hallowed grounds is so intoxicating and addictive that I cannot even dream about explaining the feeling.
This might have been one of my "worries" before i had even entered Mumbai. "I had liked, no, LOVED Delhi". And many people told me that there is just one option out of Delhi and Mumbai. I had ran out of my options before I even got to sense the options. Now I had to dislike Mumbai !!
How can one dislike anything without even trying and how could I like Mumbai MORE than how much I liked the rush of Delhi??? I am at a dilemma, I hope another week and the time I leave Mumbai, I would actually realize what are my exact feelings towards this wondrous creation of man and god, good and evil, poverty and crazy riches. I will have to come up with a suitable response for Mumbai, otherwise even I might be disappointed with what I have to say about this city!!
Give me a week before I discern my feelings of the past two weeks, or lets hope for a mind blowing eye opener which allows me to make up my mind faster!
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