TALES OF HUMANE MUMBAI

Today every mumbaikar, from a 5year old K.G. student to a software engineer of a reputed company, has only one tale to brag about – how he had got stuck up due to the unexpected rains and finally how he reached to a safe place. He recounts that how easygoingly he had stepped out from the work place despite the heavy showers which the weather people described as ‘never before in this century’.Each narrator`s yarn makes us realize that how the spate had benumbed the commercial capital. The water level in each story differs according to the narrator`s place such as doosre mazle tak( till the second floor), bridge ke upar tak(even above the bridge), plat form nahi railway nahiPhakt panich pani( even the railway platform was not visible due to the floods) ….. it goes like that.
Every recounter unfolds the unseen humane face of aamchi mumbai- he takes us to a slumdweller who him self has lost everything but distributing biscuits , to a stranger who willingly gave him a lift, to a friend’s mummy who is ordering him to change the wet dresses lest he gets ill.
The disaster management guys don’t have any place in these tales. Though one cant blame the government for this unexpected deluge , but they have to answer that why we citizens are being taxed for many such departments when no needed help can be done during such a predicament. Actually all the above narrarors are very lucky for recounting their tales.There are many unlucky ones for whom nothing is now left to loose as such. As usual the ministers, after giving an aerial visit to affected palces, will announce some compensation. Not even the GREAT GOD will be having any idea about how much his disciples will have to shell out to get those compensations sanctioned!