So many thots that occupy my mind in the course of the week and I never get down to penning it... so what have I been thinking about? the monsoons for one thing... there is something so gorgeous about Mumbai during the rains... ofcourse I understand that it is easy for me to say that it is the beautiful season in Mumbai when I dont take the trains... but i have some experience in that department but nevertheless I think monsoons are the best part of Mumbai..... after the heat the whole city gets enveloped in a blanket of cold rain... it calms me down immediately... I feel peaceful... as if the rains are cleaning all the ikky things of mumbai.... ofcourse that is far from the truth... yday in my enthusiasm to enjoy the rains I started walking in bandra.... only to immediately jump into the refuge of an auto when I realised that every car passing by was splashing mud on me... note to the world: Mumbai is not europe where walking is a pleasure...here people actually are a hindrance to the roads....... My friends and I were having a debate.. .about why is it that India is so different.. there is a pall of negativity that surrounds you as soon as you get off that international airport in Bandra... not to mention the stench of dettol swept floors.... I have had a few unpleasant incidents greet me at airports - mostly to do with taxi drivers.... all of them are foul mouthed and create a fuss everytime there is a slight change in plans...you get abused and threatended... and you end up feeling intimidated in your city/home... you hate that feeling.... we all concluded that one of the reasons why Mumbai/India is like this is that there are limited resources... everyone is fighting for the same pie...everyone is trying to outdo the other... and everyone things that life is about that coveted position (I am not denying that it is a very lofty ambition)... but to have your life entirely designed around that ambition is what is so screwed up about India... we forget that life is also more meaningful when you have other things in life .... I also thot about my generation of professionals... somehow this generation really lost the plot... we stopped being simple and started becoming very much a clone of the other... so everytime I go into meetings I see women dressed in crisp neat suits resembling a female lawyer from law and order (ofcourse even the sales woman at Shoppers Stop looks like that but that is another matter)... and there are some cliches which just bug me... everybody will have a ferrogamo tie, a mont blanc pen or accessory, a black berry, an Ipad now and ofcourse the fancy accent... we are all such suckers for such accented english.... we forget that we are in parel India and think we are in manhattan ... when did it become more about the show than about the profession... that is why I respect some of my seniors in the profession who are so brilliant but do not have the need for any paraphernalia to add to their resume.... am i that simple? heck no... but who says I cant complain?