Mumbai Ishtyle...

Mumbai-I think of it & the next moment I have images of people swaying out from the buses,trains and almost all other transportation means.I have even heard that the people in possession of their own cars there or any other  personal vehicle also prefer to go by these public transports!!! I have actually never been to the main city!! I never had a chance to..I've heard the place is best for not so big budgeted shopaholics!!I've just seen the train stations surrounded by big skyscrapers and by chance its always a twilight when I have to catch a train for Bangalore via Mumbai from Ahmedabad.So I have been lucky to see the golden lit buildings there..And this sight of people drooping off the trains and buses actually has been witnessed by me there-at the lovely(sarcastic) railway stations!!.This is how I pass my 2 hours there..Observing people,listening to their different languages,their outfits,the weary faces of men and women,the food stalls(which seems damn unhygienic but these Mumbaikars have been gifted with a innate resistance I suppose!),the dogs smelling all the garbage bins hoping to find a little for their empty stomachs,the coolies and lot many other things !!

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I always used to wonder that how these people manage to dangle out of these trains and buses!!And it was only today that I actually experienced it!! And believe me it was a boggling experience!!The case was, that I was waiting for an auto-rickshaw that could take me to my house.I was waiting there and I saw a girl ,her face clad in a blue duppata( to protect her beautiful skin from getting tanned!! ) and as stated in one of my earlier blogs , I love to talk to "sincere looking strangers"!! I asked her if she was waiting for a bus..It was already 6:15,the time when the last local bus passes by our college and I could see around 50-60 eager faces out there with a sense of competition sparkling on their faces to who would climb the bus first!!

There were many empty autos(which is a rare sight) that were passing by me and I wasn't impeding them!!Dunno why!! Maybe my brain cells had decided to try something new today! I waited with her for the last bus which finally arrived at around 6:40...And the first distant sight of it brought a "OMG" reaction on my face , looking at which , she said "This is a usual scene!!First day it'll seem weird but then when you commute daily in this you'll get  acquainted!!" And I was like "How do we climb in this..I mean it is so very crowded!!" But finally I was able to occupy a square cm area of the beautiful white bus!!So many people!!But I loved the experience... And now I realize that going in that yellow college bus was so damn boring!!The same people, same situations and you know what, every morning when I used to board the college bus , it was a common sight : People with the headphones plugged in their ears and only twice a sem with their books [:P]!!

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MORAL: Get out of your comfort zone and try something different !! Stop sticking to the routines... There is so much of unspeakable joy!! :)
Mumbai Ishtyle...