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Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civilizations in resurrection and decay. Its the blue skin-smell of the sea, no matter where you are in the island city, and the blood metal smell of machines. It smells of the stir and sleep and the waste of sixty million animals, more than half of them humans and rats. It smells of heartbreak, and the struggle to live, and of the crucial failures and love that produces courage. It smells of ten thousand restaurants, five thousand temples, shrines, churches and mosques, and of hunderd bazaar devoted exclusively to perfume, spices, incense, and freshly cut flowers. That smell, above all things - is that what welcomes me and tells me that I have come home. Then there were people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konark; warrior caste, Brahmin, and untouchable; Hindi, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsee, Animist; fair skin and dark, green eyes and golden brown and black; every different face and form of that extravagant variety, that incoparable beauty, India.

~ Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts Awake Beautiful City Colour Empire Hate Hope Human Love Mumbai Shantaram Sleep Smell Sea Sweat Sweet

the flames are silent,Peace is violent,Tears are frozen’cause massacre was chosen.~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories

~ Ankita Singhal

Ankita Singhal 26 11 Mumbai Peace Poem Poetry Tears Terror Terrorism Violence

Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

~ Hong Mei

Hong Mei Asia Backpacking Calcutta China Chinese Delhi Explorers Faxian India Indian Kolkata Mumbai Travel Women Xuanzang 中国 印度 旅游

He looked at me with a smile that I still remember and ran a finger along his impeccably trimmed mustache. “Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

~ Ken Doyle

Ken Doyle Bombay Cricket India Mumbai School

The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.

~ Amruta Patil

Amruta Patil Abuse Apathy Compartment Eyes Mumbai Mumbai Local Train

Because knowledge does not need an academic greenhouse. It can bloom, anywhere.

~ Rashmi Bansal

Rashmi Bansal Entrepreneurship Inspirational Motivational Mumbai

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

~ Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts Bombay India Mumbai

Bombay, you will be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is understood in the West. Other Indian metropolises like Calcutta, Madras and Delhi are like oversized villages. It is true that Bombay has many more high-rise buildings than any other Indian city: when you approach it by the sea it looks like a miniature New York. It has other things to justify its city status: it is congested, it has traffic jams at all hours of the day, it is highly polluted and many parts of it stink.

~ Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh Bombay Cities City Life India Indian Authors Khushwant Singh Metropolis Mumbai

The main goal of the regulatory policy has been to control the size of Mumbai by penalizing any new development, fearing that economic success would attract more people.’ Yes, we have deliberately planned for our cities to fail. That has been our intent. If they succeed, then more people would move there, ‘who would have to share an already deficient and immutable infrastructure’. Bertaud concludes: ‘This is a very pessimistic view of urban development.' An understatement, so classically French!

~ Mihir S. Sharma

Mihir S. Sharma Decay India Mumbai Urban Nightmare

As they left the pier and walked into the park, Chahda looked around appreciatively. Nice place, this. Capital of New Caledonia. Big island, has 8,548 square mile, also has 53,245 peoples. Eleven thousand in Noumea. That is what says the Worrold Alm-in-ack.Rick and Scotty laughed. It was like old times to hear Chahda quoting from The World Almanac. A Bombay beggar boy, he had educated himself with only the Almanac for his textbook, and he had laboriously memorized everything in it.

~ John Blaine

John Blaine 1949 Almanacs Bombay India Mumbai Rags To Riches Self Educated

She removed the shining black disk from its sleeve, holding it by the edges. After she placed it on the turntable and set the arm into motion, she adjusted the volume on the amplifier, flooding the room with sound. She closed her eyes and began to sway to the music. She could almost feel Clive’s arms guiding her, as he had done so many times over the course of their lives tog

~ Ken Doyle

Ken Doyle Bombay Goan Culture India Mumbai

In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.

~ Jerry Pinto

Jerry Pinto Bombay India Mumbai Profound

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

~ Ken Doyle

Ken Doyle Bombay Cricket India Mumbai

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

~ Sanhita Baruah

Sanhita Baruah City Crossing The Road Crowd Funny Humour Metro Mumbai Road Crossing Traffic
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