Juggernaut

Mumbai ,my beautiful Mumbai.



What is happening to you?



It's true , I've tried to romance you,

and failed.

I've waltzed in Matunga,

pranced with the wada pavs,

danced in dadar

caroused through kandivli

wassailed in virar ...

but you weren't impressed.



So I've Ceased and stopped all my attempts romance you.





But oh mumbai, what terrible tragedy has befallen upon you !



(sidebar)

A true juggernaut ,this world does not stop , but cruelly continues.



At a time of tragedy you wonder at the world's capacity for continuing..



It has happened to all of us. Hasn't it ?



Whenever we lost our near and dear ones , we expected the planet to cease
its spinning so that we could all float away from all the pain.

We expected silence, respect, the needs of the heart to be fulfilled , but
found that the world does not care, that it moves ahead.

People die, people are born again, the sun rises and sets, the stars come
out and play, and the world moves on.



When tragedy strikes , you mourn alone, while the world continues to turn,
for tragedy is already old news.



Hate, fear and intolerance are the only true crimes in this world.



You say, 'Now the healing can begin'



but there is no healing...



Just a short pause before the next horror, the next tragedy.



Until the hate ends.



(Hope for hope's sake,

for hope makes one strong,

so hope that...)

Mumbai , a perfect microcosm of the world , of all its chaos and glory , its
beauty and savage indifference , is therefore too a juggernaut in her own
sense.

Mumbai is far more resilient than what all the fear mongers in the world
have come to imagine.

She will swallow up everything: Fear, grief, insanity...and yes even hate,
the infinite vastness of the hate that fear mongers have harbored in their
hearts.



(A message to all fear mongers...)

Don't embody hatred.

It can only give you pyrrhic victories .





(A message to the rest of us...)

Be strong.



Be a juggernaut.


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