Ajay - On the Road called Life!

I had posted about how frustrating the entire application process for XLRI has been.
Yesterday my friend and I set out to buy the forms. She has called up the State Bank of India, Mahim branch which was selling the forms.

I haven’t been blogging about this, but for a good number of weeks we have been facing a severe water shortage.
This water shortage is strange because only my lane has that problem.
The problem has been getting even worse daily with even lesser water coming every day.
Today, I guess temperatures of all the people in the [...]

So have you decided to shift to Mumbai? Or maybe you just want to talk the talk.
Read on and learn…
English: There’s a minor problem
Hindi: Arre yaar, “Waanda” ho gaya
English: There’s a big problem
Hindi: Arre yaar, “Zol” ho gaya
English: There’s a huge problem
Hindi: Arre yaar, “Raada” ho gaya
English: You’ll be surprised .
Hindi: Ekdam “Hill” jayega [...]

It’s been raining all day today. Infact, it has just continued since yesterday. Woke up, found it raining and went back to bed.
Stayed at home all day long while the rains came down outside. Reports have it that as usual Mumbai suburbs went under water.
Did set off in the afternoon, but plans got cancelled and [...]

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 [...]

We are leaving work today at 3.00pm
What I wonder now is what time will I actually reach home.
I’m sure my internet at home is not working, so I may post feedback tomorrow…

Not only was the internet down, but also the electricity in the area was turned off.
We left and I was able to get a [...]