UN-ANIMOUS INSPIRATION”

On my birthday 14th november 2006 …i look back and reflect my mission and my future dream… I would like to share my 1st ever poem which still stands as a cult of inspiration for me …. i hope you will love it too

Unrestricted boundaries await….
Unsolved mysteries pend….
Unexplored horizons to realize….

I shall, I can, I will ….

Untie the tangles within myself,
Unmatch the strength of the almighty,
Unleash the metaphor of ecstasy.

And reach the heights of the unattained destny

‘Nu-anse

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MERE BATUVE KI LAST LOCAL…

 

After being a victim of one of the most popular tricks in Mumbai, PICK-POCKETING… I decided to dedicate my next article to the Rs. 2,600 I lost and to the MUMBAI LOCAL TRAINS ….its a heck of ride and it actually means a lot more to a Mumbaite than just a public transport service. Let us say it carries 6.1 million passenger form one place to another …mann!! That’s a lot of people …..any new immigrant to Mumbai will get terrified when he sees the rush, the desperation, the extreme anxiety to just get in a train.

It is the weirdest place in Mumbai and you may find most of the weird things happening here. 1^st thing you’ll notice in every train will be a gujju guy shouting aloud on his cell phone and asking on his phone “ jignesh bhai ITC ka bhaav kitna chhey, market bahut saaru karuu chhuu….”. on the other side you’ll hear people singing old hindi songs in their worst of voices and yeah their favorite “Pardesi pardesi jaana nahii and mera piya ghar aaya ….cheers to local trains these pathetic songs are still one of the most heard around. Well women discuss everything from sari to jewellery , about this guy and that guy and the giggle sounds echo all over the day

Just five months of travelling in these trains I realize that local trains symbolize life of every Mumbaite, well you must we wondering how … I relate to some of the instances that happen everyday at an average local train station and train in Mumbai …

STARTING with the 1^st ….Mumbai local trains symbolizes COMPETITION; well the sight of just the train coming at the station can bring goose bumps in the minds of the people. Like a hundred men trying to get the one and only girl that lives on earth, they jump, push, crumble, crush to get in a 2^nd class compartment, just like the life in Mumbai you need to fight for your existence and compete with everybody including yourself to lead a decent life.

Then I talk about DEJECTION; …. Dirty, Over flooded, stinking trains with people’s breath and bodies emitting obnoxious smell makes you feel dejected and feel really awful on what life am I leading right now. Now compare it to the problems mumbaite faces …. Less water, dirty neighborhood, immigrants’ increasing like Mumbai has the most precious diamond in the country and even loneliness the young mumbaite’s feel today

Third and the last is FRUSTRATION; imagine 15 people sitting in a Maruti 800, the conditions in local trains is even worse so obviously you tend to get a bit frustrated, start cursing the government, fighting with people in the trains… the same way Mumbai city is fast, ever challenging and you have to fight with destiny everyday, the increasing population, taxes, no proportionate infrastructure is making Mumbai people frustrating too

Though at the end of the day, I salute to every commuter of Mumbai local trains, you guys are real fighters, probably that’s why after all the great negatives it has, it is still the same train that takes to work and help us earn our livelihood, help meet some really interesting people on-board and it’s the LIFE LINE OF MUMBAI as we know and we are proud to say that MUMBAI IS THE BEST CITY in the world, an emotional Mumbaite says that

 

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