Mumbai from the trenches.
Well, a few quick points, before I rush to work.
The place stinks. A combination of rotten fish, open sewers and the fag end of platform 1 & 2 of Chennai Central. There’s no escaping the smell in Mumbai.
The city’s huge. I live in a pretty big city myself (35th largest, at last count), but I am amazed at the scale of Mumbai. What would a person, from say Sangendhi (a village of 10 homes and a temple) near Trichy would think of when he lands in Mumbai?
Met proportionately more bloggers in the 3 odd days I spent in Mumbai than the 2 years of blogging from Madras.
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June 3rd, 2005 - 16:39
Seek and ye shall find. You met more bloggers in less days because you wanted to.
How you doing, kiddo?
June 4th, 2005 - 01:19
That is an interesting thing. Hmmm.. I’ll have to do some research on that. And as for the stink, thalaiva, naama Cooum maadhiri varuma?
June 4th, 2005 - 10:51
Chandra, I have you covered this weekend too at ChennaiCentral
June 4th, 2005 - 13:09
I admit – it is quite huge city. And getting from one place to another is quite difficult.
But yes, nothing comes to the personal closeness of chennai
June 5th, 2005 - 00:49
so u gone for good?
June 5th, 2005 - 10:50
When I landed in Bombay several years back (for my job), I had a cultural shock. Everything was too shocking to react, but I have very fond memories of the city.What you can learn from the city is totally unbelievable.I have not lived in New York (though I have visited the city a number of times) and people say that Bombay rivals NY and I totally agree with that.