City of Freedom, MUMBAI

Victoria / Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus 

           When rest of the India walks on the land, mumbaikars walk a feet above the land. I couldn't understood why they walk in the sky, until i started experiencing them and the city. Now if someone asks me where have you been i raise a feet above into the sky and say MUMBAI.

           As the night of Dec 31St is my first of visit to Mumbai, wait wait i want to say you how a general youth access the development of a place. 

• If girls (Age group 18-24) in that locality wear traditional half saree then its an village. 
• If girls wear chudidar then its a town. 
• If girls can wear jeans and tees then its a city.
• If girls can wear Skirts then they are metropolis.
• conditions apply 
• continue reading for my views about mumbai women and girls.  

                              To make it much simple to you, as the size of the dress decreases or as the dress becomes tighter, the stronger the cities economy is, the more developed the city is.

                         Now i continue, I've seen uncountable girls wearing skirts, shorts no not shorts i can say it as 1/4th's. Then i decided mumbai is a metropoli or anything which is more than that.
The marine drive in mumbai is crowded with people waiting to celebrate the new year. As the clock touched 12:00 the sky is lit with crackers.

Marine Drive

              If any other new year i spend in mumbai i will spend it in any of the cafes in Colaba Causeway, Especially in leopold cafe or cafe Mondegar. The Ambience which we get there is inexpressible. The sounds of the noise which we make whenever a bear glass falls and breaks down are still vibrating in my ears. The bear containers like Tower Bear, Drought Beer are very attractive. Even visiting the website of leopold cafe is an experience. Do Visit http://www.leopoldcafe.com/ 

 

Cafe Leopold

An Beer Enthusiast with Draught beer (3 Litre's) 

The First scene I've seen after coming out of the cafe is an poor family sleeping in the corridors of the next building. The beer has taken tool on me so i couldn't think more about them. Beer is a very good thing for the person who have loads of unspoken feelings, memories, experiences. 
Then i went to marine drive at 4:30 am and seen girls in skirts sitting in group and having a good time. This is my first encounter with a safe mumbai especially for girls, women. Lovely couples sitting on marine drive and having conversations, the lights glowing on the far opposite side of the road, i felt like it is the safest place to live in.  
The next morning when i went out I've learnt much more about mumbaikars, For the first time in India I've seen people standing in a Q for taking tickets, boarding bus, boarding a general compartment and even to board an auto. No one trespass the line. But they run like anything to board the local train once they get the tickets. I wonder why they run like anything when the train frequency is less than five minutes, but even those five minutes are precious for the mumbaikars. they value for every minute. 
To say mumbai gives us full freedom, we can be what we are, what we want to do, how we want to be. We can see a forty year old couples holding their hands and walking on the streets, we can see a man keeping his hand on his loved ones shoulder without fearing for anyone. A girl can wear whatever she wishes to and walk in the streets without fearing for anything. 

 Common Women and Common Girls of Mumbai: When i was seeing at the running local trains, I've seen many women standing at the gates, girls lean over the gates and travel in a rush train to reach their destination. I was really impressed with the dare mumbai women have. It's even good to see aged women sitting down near the gate in an less dense trains. 
In Mumbai we can see every class of women who wears chudidars, jeans and shirts, sarees, skirts. It indicates that the metropolis are giving women the freedom to be in the way they wish to be. It also gives the women courage to hold her loved ones hand, where in normal cities and villages we hardly see even the married women do so. People from many sects can be seen.
The Best thing i liked about mumbai is a girl can fearlessly roam in the streets even at 12:00 in the midnight. i salute to the mumbai men, mumbai police for making mumbai such a women friendly place. 


Local Trains: Travelling in the local trains itself is an experience. we can travel at the rate of 1 km/Min to any where in the city. Local trains are unarguably the life line of the city. In working hours stand on a platform at the time train comes the crowd will do their work, they will throw you away from the train or they will take you inside the train. Sometime we should stand on a single leg to find space in the train. 

Victoria / Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus: This has became my most favourite destination in mumbai, any times i see the outer building of cst every time I've seen a new feature in cst. After visiting cst i the respect for the Britisher's has increased. This is because of the equal importance they have given to us in the architecture of cst. We can observe sixteen sculpture heads on the building who represent sixteen different languages of india. They have included different bird and animal species of india on the building. They have used the Hindu, mughal and European style of architecture. When observed the entrance gate of the administrative block we can see a tiger and a lion on the pillars. This is because tiger is national animal of india and lion is an important animal of England. 

Entrance gate of CST Admin block

A Car ride on Bandra-worli sea link is an memorable experience, this eight lane road give beautiful night and days views and the glowing city. 

Bollywood: A Visit to Bandra stand will make us understand how people are mad at the bollywood stars. MANNAT LANDsEND, this simple board is one of the most photographed board in mumbai because it holds the name of the house in which Bollywood Badshah Sharukh Khan Lives. I was surprised to see many school buses which are on excursion to mumbai come many kilometres just to see his house, and all the guys go gaga when they see just the door of his house. i wondered what if they really see sharuk khan? 

 

Wall Painting of Amitab Bachan

Busy, Glowing Mumbai roads

Jews in Mumbai: Sometimes i pity for jews, Wherever in the world they went they were ruthlessly killed. Resently on 26/11 2008 even mumbai was added to that list. Jews were ruthlessly killed by the Terrorists in the attacks. That resulted a severe threat for their religious places 

(Synagogue). Synagogue is an house of prayer for Jews.

Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue

An Military tank outside Keneseth Eliyahoo for security