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An evening in Mumbai

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Pic Credit: The Square Times “We ache to belong to places. It is always people who make us belong. When they are gone, the place does not recognise us any more…” I read these words somewhere and since then they have been resonating in my mind. It is true that if you want to see a place differently an interesting company does help. My latest trip to Mumbai, the Bollywood’s bastion, was revelation in this sense. After finishing work at 10 pm on my last day in Mumbai, I could not have left without seeing the Sea. So I forgo the food at the high end hotel in Bandra and guided by an outsider-becoming Mumbaikar, I headed to Bandstand. The long 1.2 km long walking promenade along the Arabian Sea boasts to house the Czars of Indian Film Industry – Shahrukh and Salman. As darkness descended to embrace the city of glittering dreams we sat dressed in our fineries, eating roasted corn cobs and tea as the lovers of the Mumbai city went near the receding shoreline to evade pryi