This was my first trip to mumbai after the events over last few months that the city has seen. The floods, the defacing of statue of bal-thackeray’s late wife and the violent protests followed, the 12 Muslim residents stranded at Amsterdam Airports being confused as terrorists, the bomb blasts (7/11) and the court verdicts for the guilty found in 1993 blasts.

Even though, I am not a resident of Mumbai, I just love every inch of it every time I visit it. Generally high on spirits, this time around I found mumbaikars a bit low on that. Well seems like the continouous natural disasters, infrastructure woes and terrorism have had an impact. Mumbai is more used to man-made problems of politics, gangwars, land issues etc, but this problems are new. Am pretty sure thought that their spirits will defeat this troubles as well.

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