Coming Home

somewhere between bangalore & mumbai:
as i type this enroute bangalore to mumbai, i wonder how it's gonna be. i am returning to mumbai after a gap of almost three months. my longest yet. the longest was around 10 yrs back when i spent a month preparing for JEE in Chennai at my sister's place there.

though i am in touch with people in mumbai on a daily basis via phone, mails etc. still there is a sense of 'wonderment'.

people talk about the 'smell' that assaults you when you get off the plane in mumbai. a very mumbai smell it's called. i have been oblivious to this till date. so i wonder if i will get a 'taste' of that this time :) gregory roberts has written about it in 'shantaram' as well.

i don't even know how long the mumbai trip is gonna last. i cud be back in bangalore on wednesday. or i cud take a lil more time, maybe a week or so.

i shall be meeting my parents after 3 months or so. i did manage to meet my sis when i went to kerala. as also the mumbai office. gonna be quite an experience.

it's gonna be a hectic few days in mumbai for sure. each day is quite filled with action and plans and blah - all work-related. this essentially is a 'business trip'. it just helps that i belong to this place...my mumbai. what say, m?

oh well :) here's to mumbai!

my bedroom, mumbai
there definitely was a smell when i disembarked. maybe it was psychological, but i could definitely feel a difference. it wasn't a stench of any sort but it wasn't exactly pleasant as well. it was quite strong actually, and there was a distinctly salty, grimy dimension to it.

the rickshaw drivers were infinitely easier to deal with and the roads so much wider and better. it took me as much time by rick to get home as it took for the plane to reach mumbai from bangalore actually. i found myself staring out at the city as if i was here for the first time.

it's good to be back home!