Mumbai is the
city that is unpredictable. It attracts, it distracts and sometimes it
disappoints.
The year 2011 has been good except for its
tail……
Sadly very disappointing to Anna Hazare at
the end of the year, although there was lots of activity at BKC complex
but the attendance was sparse. Ah well, people in Mumbai are busy, (work first,
unless unemployed). Normally, when they have no time to stop and say hello to
their next door neighbor, how would you expect them to wait in hot sun for a rally,
shouting slogan? Nah, they cannot even if you offered them free Biryanis.
But the
awareness of this movement has spread, they do support anti-corruption bill and
will only be too happy if the Lokpal bill is passed, only please don’t expect
them to skip their work/commitments and join the rally.
Not that they
don’t skip their work, they do….to watch cricket match.
Throughout the day we sat, watching the live telecast with family and
friends, nail-biting, although there was lots of food in the house, a special
meal to suit everybody’s taste but still, nails were tastier in the times of
stress. There was one big street party at the end of the day, on winning
the world cup and this was day they didn't complain of being
stuck in a traffic jam
Mumbaites are passionate about everything, they will support a socialcause if it is on non-working day..
Remember the day (February 2011) when
350 women from Mumbai took out the rally to Lavasa to spread the breast cancer
awareness? The message was loud and clear that day ‘Cancer is curable if
detected early’. It was an event to help promote women empowerment. I made seven new friends who share the equal
passion for blogging and we explored the city of Lavasa, enjoying two full
days.
There were thirteen celebrity deaths that included veteran Bollywood
actors like Shammi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Navin Nischol and Goga Kapoor and
filmmakers like Surinder Kapoor, Shamin Desai, Jagmohan Mundhra, Mani Kaul and painter
MF Hussain as well as singers like Jagjit Singh, Bhimsen Joshi, Suchitra Mitra,
Bhupen Hazarika.
The death of all these has created irreplaceable viod in various fields
of filmmaking.
Not everybody is safe in Mumbai city, some innocent civilians also lost
their lives.
Helpless Mumbaikars stranded on the roads, with no clue of what they had
wronged. The news spoke of the bomb blasts at the crowded areas, about injured
people being rushed off to hospitals, some limbs chopped into pieces flown into
different directions, and angry people on the streets. The whole stretch of
road was bloody. The bomb blast was triggered by a timer and nobody had seen it
implanted there? On crowded streets of Mumbai, nobody had noticed the bomb being
implanted on a scooter at Javeri Bazar, on the top of the bus-stop at Opera
house or under the tiles on the road at Dadar. People went on with their
business unaware of the danger being built up and terrorist were successful in
their destructive and inhuman act.
Hoping the New Year brings some memorable and peaceful moments,
thank you for visiting my blog regularly and….
Wishing you a happy new year 2012
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