Life of an Average Mumbaikar:Daily

This is Monday morning (boring as usual) and the trains are house-full. Thousands of Mumbai citizens take the Mumbai local train to reach to their work places. The trains are full packed (especially the ones coming towards the town). Most of them are busy reading newspapers, some preparing for their meetings, some are busy talking to their bosses on the phone and some are convincing the clients, some even busy chanting bhajans.

 The train is also a good place for people selling jewellery items, cosmetics, some house-hold items and also fruits and vegetables.

Everybody is busy and no one has the time to look at the others. This is one place where you find all the citizens, irrespective of their religion, caste and colour. Everyone is busy reaching their places. 

When you come out of the train, you see a long line waiting to cross the bridge (especially the Parel bridge- it is too small for the number of people everyday travelling to their offices).

When you come out of the station you see a number of people standing in the queues to get their share cabs, rickshaws and some long stretching lines waiting for the buses.

Some are busy having their breakfast on the stalls, some are getting it packed to have it in the office.

All day long, working hard throughout the day, listen to your bosses (also when it is not yor fault, basically they have had it from their bosses), listening to the clients, not so co-operative co-workers, telephone rings buzzing, queueing of emails, no time for lunch, tea is sometimes missed and the line goes on. 

After a tiring day at work, everybody runs towards their home, catching cabs, trains and buses. In the trains you see busy ladies, buying vegetables and fruits for their home and men are as usual discussing sports. (Nowadays, you don’t find ladies talking about television serials anymore).

People rush home to try and spend some quality time with their family and friends, a little time for some dinner and then rushing back to bed because next day morning they again have to rush back to offices.

This is how an Average Mumbaikar spends his/her day throughout the week. (we often get Sundays as holidays and that we usually spend sleeping).

Tomorrow we talk about the various tourist attractions and places to visit in Mumbai.