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!
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