5 days in Bombay! #part 1

I reached here on Thursday morning, after a tiring 22 hour journey in a train. Travelling to Bombay from Delhi in a train was not obviously a good idea, and I had intially planned for a flight but due to some really crazy incidents I ended up in this train.
My first day here.
Thursday.
Well, 1st thing I don't like the weather here.
Its too hot and humid.
And there is way too much traffic and too many people.
I spend the first half of the day at home sleeping and getting rid of the sick feeling that I had gained as a result of my irksome journey.
So, I decide to watch Satyagraha and spend the day at the mall because it is too hot to be outside.
And my decision turns out to be a bad one.
Satygraha disappoints.
The film tries to say so much but ends up saying too little.
But needless to say Amitabh Bachchan is awesome.
His screen presence makes you sit in the theatre and wait that something better might come up, but nothing actually happens.
Then after the movie, as I move out of the theatre, me being the 'Forever tripping Queen', suddenly slip over the floor and almost fall down but my friend somehow manages to rescue me. Yes, everyone around me is amused and laughing so out of embarrassment and nervousness I decide to do the same.
I laugh at myself and realise that whenever you fall in a public place the best way to cope up with all the sing and dance is to laugh at yourself. 
After the movie and a li'l bit of window shopping at the mall I go to a place called 'Pop Tates'. The place is good, I like the ambience and the music. The food is average.
But yeah it is a nice pleasant change from the regular hangout places in Delhi.
Here in Bombay, there is less stiffness in the atmosphere and one thing that I totally love about the city is no one gives a fuck about what you are doing.
In Delhi, the atmosphere is a little taut. Always.
At the end of the day, I am happy high and loving my new phone.
Having a Samsung galaxy grandZ is definitely a much needed change from my blackberry which I had been using since past 3 years.

We need more women like her in our nation.

Okay, so I am again in my terrible most moods.

But I do feel like writing anyway.

So.

Here is a incident which took place in  metro last week when I was going to Karol Bagh with my friend for some shopping. While we were sitting and having our usual girly gossip, we heard come commotion and noise from the seats in front of us.  As the metro was very crowded, we couldn’t see what was happening at first, after a while we heard a girl shouting at a guy who was clicking her pictures secretly from his mobile camera and the girl had caught him red handed. And my my, I must say wasn’t I proud of that girl, the young lady took stand for herself, snatched away his phone gave him 2-3 tight slaps and dragged him out of the metro all by herself. While the so called ‘MEN’ stood there and watched the scene.  A man, around 50 years of age, was even shameless enough to comment, “ek photo hi toh li thi, isme kya baat ho gayi!” (He just clicked a picture, what’s the big deal). I wonder if the same happened to his daughter what his reaction would have been.

I recently heard something nice somewhere ‘Crimes in our country happen due to lack of consequences’.

True it is.

That particular man would never again in his life dare take a picture of a girl like that. Moreover I think he would even stop carrying a phone with a camera. Because he suffered the humiliation and the consequences.

Some or the other time we get to hear of such brave acts put up by the females but rarely does it happen. Watching this incident filled me with a pleasant adrenaline rush. I felt courageous and proud.

In  a country like ours, wouldn’t it be a nice change to see more young women like her?