Good bye, maximum city

Well then, after more than a year back, am back in action again. Spending the last few days in Mumbai - ironically at the same colony where I had come to more than 3 years back. Having relocated home 7 times and office 4 times and having travelled by taxi, auto, bus and train (all lines) to office, yours truly can claim to have understood a little bit of this city.

A city where you can peacefully be on your onward journey to a guest's house even at 9 PM, a city where every day commute is like going to the most crowded pilgrimage, a city where one would go to a sports complex 10 km away at 9 pm, only to find people with entire family occupying the courts, a city which is currently mulling over its mills getting converted to malls, well .... one can go on and on.

Friends remark that this good bye is only temporary, because being the finacial capital of the country, one would always have to trundle back, given the interest and profession.

One will certainly miss Mumbai, most for making one realise that there are 24 hours full and full, without any constraints. No other city can even hold a candle in this respect.

Well, am breaking a promise I made to myself - to not write any more in this column, until ........ but then, an interview of Salman Rushdie that I watched on tv a couple of hours back, has made me change my mind!