I am a robot a spam robot

Well, thats what the Google guys thought. They blocked my blog and curbed by creativity for a couple of days because they were under the impression that I am a spam blog. Whatever that may be - because the website containing the desciption refused to load.
That set me thinking why would these people at Google think that I was a junk generating machine?
- That must be because I just sit at the computer and automatially generate all kinds of blogs?
- I type so fast that I seem automated
- That is their automatic reaction to anyone who writes more than 1 blog in 2 days
- My thoughts are as dumb as that of a robot
- So many people are emailing my blog to each other that it has become spam

...and all other kinds of rubbish. Anyway I am a real live human being typing out my thoughts. People at Blogger and Google please give me a break! Otherwise I will open up 22 other blogs in all different names and post same articles everywhere. Just to get even.

Chase away the cheap car

There is a small cheap car going to hit the roads this year end and I am scared. As if we didn't have enough vehicles on the road, now cars are so affordable that those with mobile phones can buy it. That is saying something - as I don't know anyone who does not have a mobile phone. Not the auto driver, not the guy who cleans out the garbage from my building. If they can own and operate a phone, they can probably afford a driving license too.

The million vehicles out on the Mumbai roads is just going to become 5 million. Because now every kid will want one as soon as he is 18. Every couple will want another one for the spouse.
Maybe this price rise in fuel is a good thing. People will be able to afford cars but they wont be able to afford to keep it running. Maybe the price rise in land is a great thing. People can afford a car but can't afford parking space. Imagine - such a small cute car would need proper sparking and heavy security. After all, a couple of thieves together can just carry it away. Ban it in cities - I say.

But wait a minute! With such small cars, imagine how easy the rainy season will be for pedestrians. Nowadays, the first to get stuck are those classic Maruti 800s. Post launch of small cars...it will be them. So you get on to the road, hop from one stranded car to another and you reach home. No need to worry about potholes or open manholes either.

Small cheap cars - come do your worst! Mumbai is ready for you.

Mumbai - The Cloud city

If you live in Mumbai, you would know what I mean. Dust - dust and more dust is flying around. All of it caused by these new buildings - being constructed and old building being destructed. Or is it self-destruction ....since these old buildings seem to be collapsing themselves without any assistance?

There are building coming up in crannies which you never imagined existed. One fine day you pass by a place and there is shiny new residence or office space! In Bandra, when I looked for one of my favourite restaurants, all I found an offensively new red mall. The landscape is changing like one of those movie scenes where they show clouds moving in fast forward.

It is fine if it just changes. But think of all the dust and cement that these building construction is spewing out! In Dubai, you can see the same amount of construction. But aleast they are careful on covering the construction sites to minimise dust floating around.

You can imagine Mumbai a few years from now. People walking around with oxygen masks, coughing and with headlamps fixed on their pained heads and an umbrella in hand.
How else will they survive the dust pollution, falling debri and lack of visibility? Even now there is white dust from marble polishing that is swirling outside my window. It feels like I am staying in a cloud - surrounded by (extremly harmful) white mist!

By the time I wrote this post, another building has fallen! The number of buildings constructed is surely overtaking even number of children born in India!