[nukkad] This Is Mumbai.

["Nelson Fernandes" <>]

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Tip of the day:  You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
    --John Viscount Morley 
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This Is Mumbai.

 A CITY where everything is possible Especially the impossible.


 Where lovers first love and then marry,
 Where there is place for every Tom, Dick and Harry
 Where telephone bills make a person ill,
 Where a person cannot sleep without a pill.
 Where carbon dioxide is more than oxygen,
 Where the road is considered to be a dustbin,
 Where college canteens are full and classes empty,
 Where Adam teasing is also making an entry,
 Where a cycle reaches faster than a car,
 Where everyone thinks himself to be a star,
 Where sky scrapers overlook the slum,
 Where houses collapse as the monsoon comes,
 Where people first act and then think,
 Where there is more water in the pen than ink,
 Where the roads see-saw in monsoon,
 Where the beggars become rich soon,
 Where the roads are leveled when the minister arrives,
 Where college admission means hard cash,
 Where cement is frequently mixed with ash.


 This is Mumbai my dear,   But don't fear, just chee ...... Come to Mumbai
 every year !


 25 things that prove you're a Bombayite

 2. You say "town " and expect everyone to know that this means south of >
Churchgate.
 3. You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya Hindi', which only
    Bombayites can understand
 4. Your door has more than three locks.
 5. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
 6. Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.
 7. You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home.
 8. You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.
 9. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet
and > you think it's a "steal."
 10. You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends,
> neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, 	train friends, a species
unique > only in Bombay.
 11. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you call the >
roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar        	with Warden
Road, Peddar > Road, and Altamount Road
 12. Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides cricket which  you
> follow passionately.
 13. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the "Bombay
Times" > supplement.
 14. You take fashion seriously.
 15. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
 16. Hookers, beggars and the homeless are invisible.
 17. You compare Bombay to New York's Manhattan instead of any other cities
> of India.
 18. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
 19. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahara and Santacruz airports >
instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport
 20. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
 21. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
 22. Being truly alone makes you nervous.
 23. You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and >
actually call it 'romantic'.
 24. Only in Bombay, you would get Chinese Dosa and JainChicken.
 25. You call traffic policemen as 'Pandus" and expect out-of-towners to
understand that.

 I LOVE BOMBAY!!


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