Mumbai Mania

Living in Bombay we have to deal with certain aspects in our day to day life no matter what we are doing. For four years of my life I traveled from Andheri to South Mumbai, Nariman Point and Kemps Corner, by rail and by road.

Not only have I had other people's sweat drip on me but also had to endure smelling armpits and oily hair rubbed on my face. The overcrowded trains is a well known issue in Mumbai, what we are even more famous for is our potholed roads, you literally have to dodge potholes if you are going to drive even a kilometer in the city.

We have garbage and dirt everywhere, everywhere we walk there are either pan stains plastic bags, leftover vegetables, the possibilities are endless. In my locality Seven Bungalows the beach faces a unique problem, every time the beach gets a set of new dust bins, they are robbed. So the beach is littered even more by the few people who would use these dustbins.

A solution comes to mind is that if the dustbins are placed at frequent intervals and there are so many of them, the value automatically hits an all time low, the Government should invest in a massive amount of dustbins so the thief finds his time more valuable than the actual cost of dustbin.

What about the air levels and water pollution, the pollution control website does not have the test results updated since 2003. On Google Earth we can actually see the entire sea pumped with our black sewage from the city untreated! Apart from that there's a new hazard raising its head in urban Mumbai, cell phone radiation towers that emit more than 50 times the safety limit and no ones doing anything about it.

Apart from that the 16 CCTV's at CST station didn't record any footage of the terrorist attacks because the recording device was not functioning. It's absolutely crazy, a system that is so corrupt that the people who are suppose to protect you rob you at every opportunity, where fear is the game they play, to keep us at bay!

I think its time we wake up and make things happen to protect the lives of the future generations that will need a safe and healthy environment to live. We need to wake up Mumbai, its time to be the change we want to see!