Ruminant

More than ten days since I got back from Mumbai.
For a second I feel things seem to be happening and the next second I feel its as stagnant as it always used to be.
For the last ten days I've been a bundle of contradictions!!

Today's July 1st................The Blog date shows June 30th still.........Whatever...
Wishing all the July GRE guys best of Luck!!
Don't screw up like I did...........

SHADOW CITY

Just spend a few minutes reading this article>>>>>>30 Minutes: Mumbai loots slums

Happened to catch this on CNN IBN........Was pretty shocked.....
Its about the slum rehabilitation scam in Dharavi-Mumbai
Can You imagine the level of corruption......The Government asking the anti corruption unit to stop investigation into this issue.
And...poor people lose out.......who work their asses off to earn wages of 50 bucks a day and with the slum mafia plays things to their advantage by selling the flats, you and i can only say its an impasse.
Finally what??
Nothing....
Nothing is ever going to improve. Corruption is the order of the day!!! How can there be a government in any state in India which has absolutely no corruption??
Dharavi has been living in this state for years now....Corrupt bureaucrats feel its not going to make any difference, "Dharavi has gone to dogs...Nothing can change it".
And what about people who believe that a change is possible???
The answer is obvious--they don't have a say....

And........for people who are not too sure of what Dharavi looks like
check this link out>>trivialmatters........A Brilliant blog i must say!!

Last day at Mumbai...........

Got to get back to blore in a while...
The best part was I traveled around mumbai like a normal localite..........mugged up all the local stations!!!
Great experience............Not my GRE exam though[:(]
YA!!Finally I got here...........




A couple of hours and I'll be back home.............and..........the usual thing....

Mumbai contd.........Vorli Beach....

A contrast to juhu's pigeons....





The Common Citizen-R.K Laxman

Khandala.....Lonawaala...






good place.....The drive to khandala was amazing..

MUMBAI..........

Had to stuff whatever happened yesterday in my bag and get on with the usual.......I guess I had no choice. But I'm very disappointed with myself for choking when it mattered.
Ditch...Lets not talk about it...
After all this is my first trip to Mumbai!



You find Millions of these!!





The Taj.............

Nariman Point


By the way.....this is a restaurant near Nariman Point...........Ho!Ho!


I'm no real Photographer and all.........Just tried my luck with the camera...

GREif.......

The eagle had to land, But it crashed!!
I screwed up.

So Fast??
Song: Echoes (Floyd)

Sigh!
Leaving to Mumbai on tuesday. The exam's on Thursday.When I Booked the date on February 10th, felt as if there was still a decade left and lots of time to prepare......heh...Cant believe there's just 5 days left and my preparation.............................ah....you know how we are generally prepared for exams......
Anyways...Exams have never overwhelmed me. I guess this will go as fine as i expect it to.
But all of us have that pinch of 'anxiety'!