Tuesday, January 26, 2010


The Tale of a Zestful City

There is a city not too far

Where a human can walk faster than a car

This city can turn a beggar into a king

Here an operation is not just a surgery but also sting

This city boasts of being the capital of money

Asia’s biggest slum is here, Ain’t that funny?

This city houses universities that has so many scholars

This city resides people that live a month in 100 dollars

You see people running after money even at the cost of their life

Here languages are taller than mountains & words are sharper than knife

Thousands of people travel over here from one place to another

Here circumstances arise where your relative is your foe & a stranger is your brother

This city has a culture & an attitude of its own

“Chalta Hai” it is called & on the streets it has grown

The city has a lifeline which everyday draws blood

The people along with their sins are washed away in calamities like flood

2 years back the TAJ was thrown to the ground

And Mumbai was brought down to its knees

But the people over here soon forgot the pain

Thanks to increasing fees

Mumbaikar’s always learn to adjust

And they adjust time & again

Here a ‘Breaking News’ means nothing at all

& common man is always in pain.

This City has seen many high’s and low’s

And Nobody has the time to even feel pity

This is the story of Mumbai meri jaan

The Tale of a Zestful city

- Kenneth Savio Fernandes

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