On my way to work today

July 3, 2007 | Filed Under Point of View, Travel 

I got into a rickshaw without realizing that I would be stuck in a traffic jam soon after. While my rick had stopped for a while, this dog came and stood around asking to be photographed. I instantly removed my K790i and took a pic.

The pic gave me an idea and stirred the journalist inside me. I thought that I should take pics about my journey to work and blog about it in. So here’s a pictorial view of my daily travel to work. (Most of these pics are taken from a traveling rickshaw and would not be the sharpest. Also I am not a very good photographer so please don’t mind them.)

Here’s the chap, a smart looking stray dog wondering what’s all the traffic fuss or maybe he has just sported someone who might be interested in him.

Life’s irony. The rain has been pouring all the while but bucket is not yet full and most glasses are half empty. Poverty meets you just outside the posh Raheja Vihar locality.

Chandivli farm road. This road my friend is under construction for ages. I won’t vote for the Taj Mahal because this is a bigger wonder, I can’t understand how it isn’t nominated yet.

This is what happens to you, if you construct a house that will sooner or later be a part of the road. There will only be one wall left.

The rain troubles a biker, a common scene during the rains. The water has breached it probably.

This my friends is water that flows out of a small pond. It washes away the road with it. You could almost fish in it if the flow was not o strong.

A rickshaw driver cleans his rickhaw with the water from the pond.

That’s the view of the traffic ahead, soon it will be illegal to travel through this river bed. It’s actually a short cut to work. The main road has more cars and less road, hence this is still better.

Garbage… or what we Mumbaites lovinly called Kachra. It’s there everywhere, I have seen many tourists standing in front of these garbage piles to take pictures. It’s quite the tourist attraction, no wonder we have it everywhere. Now we must also sell tickets and earn money through it.

A vehicle repair shop. It’s right on spot.

Bling bling woman. Cute girl with a bag that shines.

It’s begun to rain now. Coming down heavily.

A small ground in front of Hiranandani foundation school. Where are the football playing children?

Now that’s a rain coat that works. Well only till when the rain decides not to rise from below.

Wow, am drooling, look at all that traffic.

Nice blue colour, to spread some cheer.

Now I am inside the IIT campus. The heaven has started, that’s the lake filling up.

Fallen trees.

That’s all for now. Should get to work.

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