Bombay v/s Mumbai.

Though the time isn't now,still something I had attempted during the blasts,would love to share with you guys,coz I take pride in Being from Mumbai,& here it is:-
Though I wouldn’t want to remember the gory past ,yet the 11/07/06 blasts made me realise how much I knew Bombay or Mumbai.In Mumbai I revelled in pricking the inflated notions that we Mumbaikars harboured about our anointed selves, but 11/07 changed it all. This July Mumbai’s lifeline the railway was blown up at 11 different stations, but instead of the expected epiphany, within moments strangers were pulling victims out of the still spluttering & consuming wreckage, not waiting for ambulances & stretchers to arrive people ferried them unstintingly to hospitals, within hours blood banks were filled by donors not waiting to be asked.The terrorists expected Mumbai to die a silent death, But the very next day offices limped back to normalcy, bandaged but unbowed even the lifeline was back on track, in true Mumbai spirit !!,the bomb planters should have known better than to taunt a citizenry whose steel is tempered twice daily in the hell-fire of the rush commuteMumbai slaps one with the most brutal realities ,& then socks you with the elevating antidote, can you think of any other Indian city being shaken down to its DNA yet with a spine of steel.My guess is that the clue lies in Bombay rather than Mumbai, in the polyglot pastiche of communities rather than in the parochial monoculture. The can do & won’t die spirit comes from a heterogeneous bunch of people whipped ahead by their individual dreams, they won’t allow anyone to detonate them.The ultimate distinction lies in the attitude to power, Mumbai has made authority irrelevant. Its people don’t wait for the state they pick up the pieces themselves & re-cast them to their own, improved specifications, In case you didn’t know dreams come only in do-it yourself kits.THAT’S MUMBAI FOR YOU!!Just notice the next time someone mentions he/she is from Mumbai, the pride dwelling up in their eyes.