The electric Mumbai : -- load ; ++ bill

Probably the (long time) residents of Mumbai dont know this : that their city is perhaps the only one in India where there isnt a power and water problem. People here have taken it for granted that just like the thunder, sunlight, wind and rain .. there is power and drinking-water too. But this "advantage" is now almost gone. Mumbai is turning into a Slumbai (not Shanghai). The city is now slowly facing power problems (lets not go into the reasons behind that) and soon you would prefer to buy beer instead of water.

Conversations of these kinds will be common:

• In Bandra we get only 3 hours of power cuts daily, whereas Goregaon and Kandivali get 8 hours of load-shedding everyday. Vasai and Virar dont get any power ...
• Our tanker guy comes everyday. In Borivali it comes every third day.

So get ready for load shedding and update your vocabulary with terms such as "Inverters" and "Generators". And if things continue the way they are going (which they will anyway)... then your electric bills are going to become double long floats. So you pay more for what you dont even get. Isnt that just great for the power companies. And you too ???

... we are living "fast" lives in a city thats already on life-support
Smart, no ?