It takes so little to please us! We travel abroad and when we see the infrastructure,we are often overwhelmed by it! And crib and whine that this bloody Indian government should invest in infrastructure and all bloody Indians should have civic sense!
But the Worli sea link arouses a kid’s delight in me! It feels so awesome to get onto the bridge and feel that you are on the sea. As Udai puts it ‘You are out there with nothing on either side of you, held only by strong steel ropes’! It is lovely to watch the waves lash the columns and I have even dreamt of being on the bridge in high tide and waves washing over my car! The Mumbai skyline looks gorgeous and you can discover places that were hitherto hidden from view. Is that big structure near the sea in Worli, a remnant of an old fort? The fishing boats bobbing up and down look so nice as do the clothes that are drying out on the rocks near the Worli end.
And then I feel – Life is about these things – the first Maruti car hitting the Indian Roads, the first colour program on the colour TV , the first war coverage on CNN that we saw, the first soap operas, the first metro in Delhi, the first time a MCD opened and the first multiplexes. We still have the capacity of being overawed by these things. And that keeps us grounded!!
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