Mumbai!!

How I love Mumbai!! It's so alive!! Always!! Last night, I was at Bandstand at 1 am , it still buzzed. Imagine, traffic on the highway! 3 am and there's a woman I see, still walking in the park, talking on her phone with nothing to fear. We just sat by the window, counting the cars that went past, and trust me, that was fun (and romantic :P )!!  It's funny how, a tiny bus stop could come to mean so much to me. Or the 5.46 am I took to reach class. It's the little things about the city that makes it so beautiful. The locals giving you directions so precisely or how a single Vada Pav could be enough for a meal. The strange love and hate relationship amongst the neighbors, they'd gossip about you all day long, but they'd also be the first people to come help you out in a crisis. A  Gujju area right next to a Muslim settlement that's just beside a Maharashtrian complex, that's not something you see everywhere! Or even this, just one residential complex with so many people, with different cultures, celebrating Diwali and Christmas and Lohri with the same spirit and aplomb. Mumbai, it's the only place where I can survive, without fear! So, there may be terrorists who want to strike it down, or the local politicians (read: Goons) who deface my beautiful city with the ugly posters or even the lakhs of people who this wonderful city has welcomed with all its love, it's still A L I V E! There's no place else that I could survive.  No other city could ever feel like H O M E to me! M U M B A I, it's where I belong! मुंबई मेरी जान! Truly!