The pen-ultimate week in Bombay is yet another busy week, exploring more places on the checklist. The first on the list was Bandra-Worli Sea Link. On Monday evening, I traveled to Bandra straightaway from office. I should have taken the sky walk on Bandra east. I didn’t and walked through the crowded, muddy roads to reach the Highway. That 500 meter stretch is the time when I realized that there is a section of Bombay which is worse like many places in Lucknow. Once I reached the other end of the Highway, Niket and Srinivas were already waiting for me (I don’t know how I always turn up late). We all then took the sea link for which a one way trip toll is Rs. 55. Unless we got down the car, we couldn’t see anything apart from the side blockade walls. I heard from people that the sea link travel is a more worthy sightseeing on a high tide day. But we had a good travel on the sea link even on that low tide day.
Once we reached Worli, we sat on the platform plank on the Marine Drive. It was absolutely blissful sitting there with the mild breeze gently touching you. From there, we went to Sardar Pav Bhaji hotel. I have never ever seen a hotel entirely for Pav Bhaji. And believe me, people wait in queue for getting into the hotel. The hotel management follows batch processing for the entire set of customers i.e., once the current batch of customers leaves, a new batch is allowed inside. The bhaji was good except for the enormous butter in it. I think that the Mumbaikars will die if butter supply to this city is stopped. After the buttery dinner, we had the biiig Bombay Paans. It was so big that Srinivas almost ate it like a burger.
We then went to Shivaji Park, where the God of cricket used to practice once. It is a locality which encourages playing games a lot. The ground is too huge, almost double the size of CEG ground. They have Cricket, Football, Karate, Kabbadi, Judo, Kho-Kho and much more trainings conducted there. In weekends, we can see many children in white not even the size of a cricket kit, carrying one to practice there. This place is like a dream place for anyone who is a sports freak like my friend Vishnuu.
On Wednesday, me, Manu, Srinivas and Rohit planned for a mini meet at Kurla. I never thought Kurla would be so crowded. Kurla is definitely a hell on earth. The human population density would definitely be very high. And every stranger looked like a kidnapper, scaring the normal people. We struggled and came out of the crowded roads. There we luckily found a decent restaurant and went to the mezzanine floor. The roof is just an inch distant from my head. But it was different to have food at such a place for the first time.
Next day, me and my fellow interns wanted to go out for dinner. We reached Hotel Status near Churchgate. It was really a superb place. Reshmi Paratha is simply awesome there. That is an occasional dine out for us, but there are people who stay around and are regulars there. I was wondering how come people spend that much for food regularly. Finally, we went to Marine drive and sat for some time. Peace in the moonlight, it was. Then we took the local from C.S.T. The station is a very old building, but it is amazingly brilliant. To be honest, the British architecture is indeed beautiful. In terms of the average distance between two stations, harbor line will definitely be lesser than the central line and the western line.
And finally the much awaited event of IIM Lucknow’s Alumni Committee, Renascence 2012 happened this week. The event was organized in 11 cities on the same day. I was the location coordinator for Bombay. It was really a good day running around to buy things for the event. The event location was at TAJ Lands End, Bandra. The event went really well with Alumni from various batches turning up. I had a good time with my friends Asavari, Pranav, and Saurabh and my seniors Sreejith, Loveleen and Sriram after two months. While leaving, I drove Pranav’s car till Vile Parle from Bandra at around 2:00 AM. The best part of metros is the midnight drives and that one was awesome.
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