Selective Amnesia

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.

Posted by Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan on June 3rd, 2005 | Filed in Travel |

6 Responses to “Mumbai from the trenches.”

Aekta Says:
June 3rd, 2005 at 4:39 pm
Seek and ye shall find. You met more bloggers in less days because you wanted to.

How you doing, kiddo?
Sriram Says:
June 4th, 2005 at 1:19 am
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?
thennavan Says:
June 4th, 2005 at 10:51 am
Chandra, I have you covered this weekend too at ChennaiCentral
sat Says:
June 4th, 2005 at 1:09 pm
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
vijay Says:
June 5th, 2005 at 12:49 am
so u gone for good?
Venky Krishnamoorthy Says:
June 5th, 2005 at 10:50 am
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.