One Day in Mumbai…

I remember this one day when I had some pending work in Kurla and was traveling by Mumbai Local Train. Fortunately for me I had got a window seat and was enjoying the morning breeze.

Suddenly my attention went to this girl sitting opposite to me , who was scribbling some thing that looked familiar.
She was “Copying” an Assignment which was something about the PN junction which I rem studying in first year of engg. Engineers are trained to copy ;)

We started talking (as usual..happens in ladies Compartment) and she told me that she is doing engg. in Vivekanand college in Electronics stream.
She had some class test for which she was already late.

For the next 15-20 mins we bonded so well. We discussed so many things .We cribbed about Mumbai university, college, Temperature, crowd, rush, traffic, etc… We had a lot of tips to share too.
I gave her gyan on Engg.( all crap..which I neva followed myself).
She shared her shopping tips. I really liked her dressing sense esp. her bracelet which had little pink and blue beads that had her name engraved –M-E-H-E-K. She smiled coyly and said that her BF gifted her that on her bday.

But as good friendship stories come to end, this one too.. Actually our train reached our destination. We both had to get down at Kurla..
She immediately rushed for her coll as she was already late for her test.i bidded her good bye and wished her luck.

Its so strange how you meet new people everyday and every experience is so unique.
Here I met a stranger and became friends in just 15 mins. Mumbai meri jaan…


After completing my work in Kurla ( which took only 10-15 mins) i was coming climbing the foot over bridge when suddenly few people starting pushing and asking every1 to make way.
Just out of shock I turned around and saw people carrying a dead body which was covered in white sheet.
As I was quite used to train accidents I wasn at all moved by the incident. I just moved to the side of the bridge to make way. The people just crossed me and I realize the dead body was that of a girl as I cud see long hair flowing backwards. I heard a few people talking that she was hit by a train while she was crossing the tracks. I thot how stupid some1 can be to cross tracks and risk their own life like that.As the people were almost running with the body the white sheet moved a little and my attention went to her hand which had the same bracelet with beads spelling M-E-H-E-K.


Such is life in Mumbai…. Met a friend in 15 mins …and then Lost her permanently …..

Life seems different for no reason

Life seems different for no reason…

New area….Well I can’t say new area coz I have been born n brought up for most all my life here except for 1 year..But it still feels different now here in Mumbai.

May be now I m not used to Traffic jams, pollution, road blocks, over flowing gutters or may be packed trains...May be now I m not used to running all day for catching buses and trains.

I didn’t face any of that in last 1 year…It was in a very posh locality in pune where my office was just blocks away...Where the area was planned that u didn’t have to face any of the above problems...

I missed Mumbai when I shifted there...I missed home and had to live with my office colleagues I barely knew.

Life was difficult...I had to adjust to new surroundings, new roommates, and new office.

I cribbed, fought, struggled to make my life easy and comfortable.

Fought with office ppl so that I get leaves and I can run back home to Mumbai.

Fought with roommates coz I was used to taking ppl for granted at home and may be forgot that those ppl might not understand.

Fought with my loneliness coz even thou everything thing was perfect in the new area but in reality it didn’t serve any purpose.

I tried books, net everything to fight that...but when it grew dark it gripped me.

I cried for hours and still couldn’t hold it back…

Silence was screaming…

Had to shut it down somehow. ….Prayed that I can go back to my family and I can’t bear any of this non sense any more in my life.

Then came the Good News….Had to leave the current project in a month and there was a possibility of coming back.

Thot this is the opportunity I shouldn’t miss..

Little did I know I had got used to the LONLINESS

Here now in Mumbai it’s now a reverse process going on ….Connecting to ppl I had once left…
Connecting to the Area I had left…

All this noise bothers me now…

All this noise bothers me now...