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    This is supposed to be a quiet, upmarket residential area in the supposedly tony South Mumbai neighbourhood of Breach Candy.

    Once upon a time this affluent area was filled with Europeans and wealthy Indians like Maharajas, merchants , business men and executives working in Multinational companies .

    As for the streets, the only people seen walking were servants.

    Today all that has changed .

    Breach Candy is known for its CARS , street side hawkers and more cars .

    Yet this area is home to many prestigious schools, a college, shops, and a HOSPITAL!!!!

    There is NO place to park though both sides of the road have parked cars. The multi-storey car parking lot refuses to take small cars and is always full.

    And yet there are more and more cars coming to this city each day.

    Ironically the island city had a diminishing population but day by day the number of cars is increasing .

    Paraphrasing Bob Dylan, I’d like to ask the powers that be

    How many cars will it take till you know

    That this city is getting impossible to live in ?

    Hoping the Powers that Be have their listening ears on .

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  • Invitation to Breakfast

    Hey Everybody

    This month’s #FlavoursomeTuesdays is about getting it right first thing in the morning .

    Yes breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

    So get your posts ready and link up with Shilpa and me on Tuesday 2nd October .

    See you there !

    Ciao

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  • This morning I went to the Traffic Police Chowky to pay a fine.

    Actually the Traffic Police have an app that you are supposed to download and track your offences . Then you are supposed to generate an echallan and pay by cash or card at any mobile phone pay centre.

    Since I normally don’t break any rules, I never bothered to download the App but this time with all the roads being dug up, it is quite difficult to figure out what is right and what is wrong . It seems that I entered a road that was only meant for buses and was smartly flagged down by the cop. After he checked my licence, he photographed my car and asked me to pay up at the nearest police station .

    What a fiddle I thought!

    So I delayed paying my phone bill hoping to combine both jobs at one time when the driver returned from his Ganpati vacation ( Parking in Mumbai is IMPOSSIBLE and taxis are worse- they never come where you want to go) .

    Anyways, when I went to the Vodafone Office ( another dreadful experience normally) I was pleasantly surprised to find the staff polite and HElPFUL. So one of them downloaded the App for me only to realise that it didn’t work.

    Luckily, he helped me locate the nearest police station and I went there to pay the fine .

    As usual a Government job is time consuming . Luckily this didn’t take far too much time but while waiting for the cop to attend to me, I looked around and found this pile of garbage .

    I took the photo hoping to send it to the #Swachchbharat campaign only to find that when looked at in isolation, it does look like a pretty modern, abstract .

    Doesn’t it ?

    Do you think this pile of garbage can pass off as a contemporary masterpiece ?

    Sharing this with Esha and Natasha on #WordlessWednesday.

    Ciao

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