Bombay.. to.. Mumbai..
My daughter is doing a weekend course in Mumbai and so I am visiting this city every weekend for a span of 4 months. I have known this city forever. Its been part of my life from childhood and continues to be related... Mumbai .. well, I have known it as Bombay growing up. It was my aspirational city. Where everything was different, better, faster and the way it should be. I grew up in a small city, where everyone knew each other and Bombay seemed where I needed to reach- where you had to really work hard to be known! It was no less of a pilgrimage to reach Bombay during that time. We used to board Jayanti Janata - a train which ran from Kanyakumari to Bombay and without the konkan route, it took us 2 nights and 3 days of journey in the 2 nd class compartment of this train to reach. Amma tagged along us 3 – each four years apart in age, to spend 2 months of our summer vacations here. Suitcases, food, water, games, a hold-all – everything was part of this epic travel. S...
