Apologies...

No blogs for a while. First, the major happenings in this period - I have cleared my CA Final exams, the results were declared a couple of days back. And, in the last week of December, right after Christmas, I changed another job - third place in less than two years since I graduated in April 2005.

Today, while on my way to office - a forty-five minute travel, the time split equally in bus, and on foot, I faced an aspect of Mumbai life, that I have now been facing, don't know for how long. No, it is not the hordes and hordes of people, pushing and toppling over each other. Nor is it the smoky fumes coloring the air. But something of a nuisance, that the resilient "spirit of Mumbai" has come to live with - the huge amount of dust, that continues to choke my lungs and nose, hours after I have walked into my office.

The problem is not the dust, but the dust that keeps on flying all over. And while the dust "settles down", invariably every morning the employees of Municipality of Mumbai - BMC, wielding their brooms take the task of removing the dust, rather unsettling the settled dust, and depositing it at the corner of the road, so that the walking crowd can unsettle it even more. The result is just that the dust keeps on flying, and the cycle continues.

Now, if you ask me, why can't they do something else? Like? Like may be, washing the streets with water every morning so that the dust can be washed away, rather than just being played around with. And, they do that in a number of cities in India. Yes, that can be done, but beside the dust, the newly made roads will also be washed away, all left will be the numerous pot-holes and slush everywhere. And, it is not a hypothesis but a proven fact, proved every year with the first showers.

That just adds another to the list on innumerable woes of living in Mumbai.

Anyways, adieu for now. Catch ya soon.