Ajay - On the Road called Life!

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I haven’t been very active in the Indian Blogosphere and so missed the entire discussion over Kiruba being the No. 1 blogger in India (according to Blogstreet).
Patrix has expressed his opinion on Popularity in the Indian Blogosphere. He goes on to list several [...]

Yesterday at 6.25pm one of the busiest cities in the World came to a total standstill for two minutes.
As the coldwar sirens blared all across Mumbai, millions stopped all conversation, traffic came to a halt and cinemas interrupted films on Tuesday as the Indian city observed a short silence in memory of 182 people killed [...]

Received this email from a colleague of mine whose friend narrated his experience on one of the trains on which a bomb went off during the deadly Mumbai bomb blasts of Tuesday.
It goes as follows:
“STUNNED” - Mumbai Mirror.
“7 BLASTS ROCK MUMBAI”- Yahoo! headlines.
Which editor wrote these lines? Which abysmal mother f@#ker had the guts to [...]

Mumbai came to a shocking standstill on July 11 when serial blasts ripped through its local trains, killing and wounding hundreds. But the city of dreams stood fearless and fighting fit.
Salute Mumbai’s never-say-die spirit and Light a Candle for those who succumbed to the blasts or got injured. For every candle you light, CNN-IBN [...]

Received two forwards with this letter. It very well could be a real letter from any Mumbaikar to the persons responsible for the bombings yesterday.
Dear Terrorist,
Even if you are not reading this we don’t care. Time and again you tried to disturb us and disrupt our life - killing innocent civilians by planting bombs in [...]

Within just two weeks another tragedy has hit Mumbai.
After heavy rains last week that brought Mumbai to a standstill and we were just resuming life as normal we faced riots yesterday when the Shiv Sena went out on a rampage shutting shops and pelting stones and burning buses all over Mumbai and Maharashtra.
And this evening [...]

And my report continues. Not much development in the manholes. It hasn’t gotten worse from yesterday nor has it gotten better.
Manhole 1 - Day 11

Manhole 3 - Day 09

Additionally the road situation on the junction has just worsened.
Horrible traffic, bad roads, this is Mumbai!

This is the follow up post from Manholes - Day 03. As I said, I wasn’t able to take pictures of days 04 to 07. However, the BMC hasn’t disappointed me.
When I arrived at my stop today, both the manholes in a worse state since that day.
Here’s Manhole 01 on the eight day:

And Manhole 03 [...]

Had to attend my Grandma’s birthday party last evening and since my bike was giving problems I decided to use public transport to get back home from work.
Left my workplace a little after 3.30pm and hitched a ride with a colleague heading towards Thane. His plans changed and I had to get off at Rabale [...]

Following up on my post, we enter the third day.

The condition of Manhole 01 hasn’t changed much since yesterday, but neither has it been repaired.
And I found another manhole nearby in a much worse state!

I won’t be able to get feedback for Day 03 to Day 07, because of a two day training programme I [...]