Mumbai is Mine

This a dedicated to the amazing city AMCHI MUMBAI

A City where every impossible is possible and unbelievable happens..
Where everybody wants to fall in love first and then marry.
Where there is place for every Tom, Dick and Harry
Where telephone bills make a person sick.
Where a person cannot sleep without a sleeping pill.
Where carbon-dioxide is more than oxygen,
Where the road is considered to be a dustbin and is toilet to humans.
Where college canteens are full and classes empty,
Where Adam teasing is also making an entry,
Where a cycle reaches faster than a car,
In some areas all the time pedestrians get there before the vehicle rider.
Where everyone thinks himself to be a bollywood 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 are richer then hardworking educated citizens.
Where the roads are leveled when the politicians in power visit city.
Where education of college and hospital admissions mean hard cash on table.
Where cement is frequently mixed with ash.
Where millions move every year for living and love it
You say "town " and expect everyone to know that this means south of Churchgate.
You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Mumbaian Hindi', a roughness of which has no parallel in the world.
Your door has more locks then the buttons on your blouse, or zipper grooves on your pant.
Rs. 500 worth of groceries fit on a palm size paper bag.
Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life subject of conversation.
You spend more time each month commuting than you spend at home.
You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.
You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
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.
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, Altamount Road .
Stock market quotes are the only other thing* besides cricket which you follow passionately.
The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the " Bombay Times" supplement.
You take fashion seriously.
Hookers, beggars and the homeless are invisible.
You compare Bombay to New York 's Manhattan instead of any other cities of India.
The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
Being truly alone makes you nervous.
You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'.
Only in Bombay , you would get Chinese Dosai and Jain(pure vegetarian) chicken. A city of great inventors of food dishes.
The worst criminals of the world prosper there, you live with them, and believe it does not happen to me. Mumbai has been labeled the topmost crime city in the world. Criminals prosper in high, medium and low societies there.
Yet every one is attracted to Mumbai for its glitter of Bollywood and wealthy it can make to enterprising souls faster.
Located in the state of Maharashtra this city is claimed by Indian of every language and state as his own.