Bombay is the city by the sea and the people living therein
are like the drops in that sea that fills up this great metropolitan, rendering
it virtually impossible to breathe or see anything once inside.
This is the second part of the Bombay Chronicles series. You
can read the first part here.
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| Image Courtesy: Google Images. |
As Poseidon threatens to engulf the island and reclaim what
is his, the wave of humanity pushes back in defiance, gathering more of its own
into the city and inadvertently helping the Lord of the Seas in his diabolical
agenda. Unlike Atlantis, which he sunk with one swipe of his trident, Poseidon
seems to be biding his time for Bombay to give up its soul willingly, albeit
unwittingly.
Bombay, like other cities in Japan, Europe and Scandinavia, is an island; an island that is slowly but steadily filling up with a lot more
people and infrastructure than its natural capacity. Factors like the Indian
population explosion and an extended rate of migration to this financial capital
have overpopulated this city.
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| The crowd on Chowpatty beach on a Sunday. |
Rising water levels around the world due to global warming
and deteriorating weather conditions are posing an increasing threat to this
city’s contemporaries like Tokyo and Venice. In fact, in extreme weather
conditions, the sea has been known to lay a invasive hand upon Bombay’s streets
as well. How long before it decides to place the city under siege?
I am no meteorologist or geologist or statistician but one
can always wonder what would happen if conditions were to get worse. It is not
like nobody is aware of the problem but can it be that people would rather live
in denial of a problem rather than think about its ramifications? And to think
that I got this theory of denial from Dan Brown’s book ‘Inferno’ which coincidently
I bought in… Bombay.
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