Well here are 139 reasons which tell you that you are a pakka Bumbaiya, few of my favorites listed below.

• You speak in a dialect of Hindi called ‘Bambaiya Hindi’, which only Bombayites can understand.
• Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.
• You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Bombay.
• The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
• Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
• "Change" is "Chillar", "Ditching" is a "Kalti" and "Trouble" is "Jhol". (Maybe Vaat Lagli too )
• Every cab and rickshaw driver makes small talk with you. (Haven’t you heard, kya saab/mehensaab kitna traffic hai dekho )
• You are back to work next day after the city is bombed – Truly the spirit of Bombay.
• You call the cabbies and waiters BOSS
• When there’s no place to breathe in the trains but there’s place to play cards and sing bhajans!
• You keep spare candles in the kitchen just in case there’s a power surge.

Cheers to the spirit of Bombay. I miss Bombay a lot and want to be back, but hey there is a much more bigger reason I want to back in India and will go where she is, yes you guessed it right the love of my life . Cheers Keith.

Copyright © 2009 Keith Dsouza

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