Mumbai got up to a new week today !! guys n gals back to their ol'routine ... taking the same trains ... same roads gettin down at the very same stn ... that witnessed bloddy madness few days back .....
call it the spirit of the city or the mental makeup of mumbaikars .... but at the end of the day ... no matter how much or where we protest ... the average mumbaikar unfortunately understands that he has to get back and live the same ol routine .... he cannot afford to cool his heels ... whether u move or not ... this citi no matter what happnes can never really be pulled back and put to sleep ....
Maybe couple of things different today was ... ( not sure how that'l last tho ) was
1) the public areas atleast bore a more secured look ... atleast there were a few ppl here n there .. bullet proof jackets in place and armed with service rifles ....
2) the people of mumbai while walking aroung ... going past each other ... i got the sense that there were lots of us who were tryin to look deeper into one another ... tryin to understand ... Who this guy mite b ?? ... can he cause some harm to me ?? ..... am i secured with him aroud ??
Ofcourse mayb not thots to such a great details ... but surely something on those lines ....
Its one thing that the average mumbaikar knows that whatever be tghe day .. to survive in this megapolis .... he has to keep running ... he has to reinvent and push himself .... and this will keep him goin on for sure .... I will not attribute this to the spirit asw much as to the inevitability of the common mumbaiite's life here .... In this respect the city will always bounce back ..... But a fallout i do see of these kind of events is the doubt that keeps creeping into one another about the person sitting on the '4th seat' next to u .... the person standing behind u in the 'Q' .... do fear that the spontaneity and the Zinda dilli of the average mumbaikar is bouind to get eroded ... He would start living and goin about his life here because he has to ... not beacause he wants to !!!:(
could lead to more of burnouts and breakdowns faster !!!
hmmm ... is this where the great city is headed ..... is mumbai goin on the path to being only 'Business As Usual' .... or can v also hope for a chillaxed life wherein love for city would set in and people would again want to give back the charm that she once enjoyed amongst indian cities ... !!!
hmmmm ..... no more thotss !!!
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daa..mumbai is a city of opportunities....n its in search of this opp tht ppl come here...leaving a lot of hope in the eyes of their family members back home...they are one of those MUMBAIKAR whom you find back to his work the very next day... now call it the Spirit of Mumbaikar or his helplessness
yup guess so .... but the problem i guess arises when the mumbaikar and also the person rulin the mumbaikaar starts reading too much into this ... and starts believing that at the end of the day 'he hasnt a choice; ... he mite whine ... shout ... cry .. but hel b back tommm ... wagging his tails .....
This is where the mumbaikar is being taken for granted and after a certain level of which he mite not b able to take it ....
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