I love Delhi. It has a soul that beckons you and holds you, claims you as its own. Like those who love the mountains, their souls live in the mountains and streams and rocks. And pick any book of a mountain loving person, you realize that they may live anywhere but their souls live in the mountains. And since no one can live without their souls for long, they get their deep urges to revisit the city that haunts them forever.
While when you look at books that glorify and make you fantasize about Mumbai, whether its Rohinton Mistry or Salman Rushdie or for that matter, any other, it’s a city that’s a step out, go between. Before you take the leap from say another city to a poised bigness, you come to Mumbai and move to that place. And those who never manage to leave Mumbai have this urge to go out and away. It pushes you away and far, the city that is.
The saddest fairy tale I ever read was ‘The Little Mermaid’. The Mermaid starts from the sea and ends in the sea, becoming the sea. When I was a child, I could not understand why this tale did not end in ‘and they lived happily ever after’ but rather the sea foam. That’s the soul of the place in which we live and affiliate ourselves to in our lives.
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Not true about Mumbai.Some of us love this city despite it being a dump.There is something about this city one will understand only after they live here.
@shabs
hmmmm...i knew i had one Mumbai spokesperson :)
ur entitled to ur opinion as i am to mine!
Hey I prefer Delhi too but Mumbai has a life of its own....
BTW, the post about Dilli Haat was about the new one, at Pitampura, not the old one at INA
@Santa...
Yes Mumbai has its own life for sure...n also different ppl like different things!
I knw but the nostalgia of old Dilli Haat shldnt b tested by gng to this new one. Maybe its a teething thing n lets hope for the best.
...finally Mumbai and Delhi are metropolitan city with bigger population like 1 crore with heavy traffic and pollutions.... BUT TASTE DIFFERS...someone like me likes HIMALAYAS, it is a real mountain . someone like rural area or garden city.....It depens how you born and brought..
@jack
thats actually true...as I said its projection of my views. Ive written about writers of mountains too here that they long for the mountain and streams ...the best example of which in India would be I guess Ruskin Bond.
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