Life in mumbai has always been a celebration, may it be diwali, ganapathi, dussehra, christmas or ramzan. Though a very busy town and people living a fast and mechanical life, still festivals would be abuzz and enlightened with fun and more of an enthusiasm amongst all, irrespective of caste or religion. You would get to experience the real integrity in diversity no where else in the world except mumbai. I was a hindu but I was connected more to the church and christ, my parents never once objected or restricted me or my brothers about our beliefs, my christian friends accompanied me to the temple and none barred or scared them. After I settled in kerala I got attached to the temples and got detached from the church, but christ did not punish me, he never came in once to my dreams and asked me why I was not praying to him. It was then I understood no matter whom you believe or to whom you pray, it is your mind to whom you question and you are answera...
Oh dear mosquito have you no sense? why do you bite with so much intense? learn to be at peace in a country like ours where ahimsa is ghandhi and ghandi is ours. My blood for you, too precious a meal, to watch you feed on me with so much zeal, i am not a useless lifeless peice of flesh, you prick and hurt and i would blush You hurt little children and feel too bold, you show your skill on the weak and old you ought to be ashamed and not proud, you are a curse to the whole world so blessed are the butterflies, they inspre the big and the small, poets and writers on their wings fly, on their beauty and life all do envy. so should you oh! dear mosquito be loved and envied by all self-realization may be your goal re-incarnate to a better soul. .
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