N.M Joshi Marg
Mumbai. You can live a 100 years in this city but it will still not cease to surprise you.
Have those of you, who are from Mumbai ever been to N.M Joshi Marg in Lower Parel? If you have, you too like every one else would have grumbled at having landed on that crammed little lane and probably made a mental note to avoid this lane in future. But, if you looked closely, you would have seen that this was not just another crowded Mumbai lane. Had you stopped to smell the flowers, or in this case the fish and the country liquor, you would have noticed that there is something special about N.M Joshi Marg.
I visit N.M Joshi Marg everyday. The entrance to my office compound is on this road. I am fortunate to have noticed something about this road. This stretch of about 1KM distance has everything. Really. EVERYTHING.
There are little saree shops, shoe shops, a tailor, medical clinics, pharmacies, groceries, a flour mill, a kabbadi vyayamshala(exercise place for Kabbadi players), residential complexes, commercial complexes, entrance exam coaching classes, fish market, country fowl market, deshi daru bar (country liquor bar), flower shops, cobblers, a school, an astrology shop, xerox booth, a PCO booth, a pest management shop, a temple, a jeweller, a local railway train station, street vendors selling sundry items like combs and twine thread and safety pins, vegetable vendors, cats, dogs, crows, kids playing toy cricket, men and women rushing to and from office, students mugging up for exams, little school children enthusiastically bidding each other farewell until the next day, retired gentlemen just lounging about, taxi stand, parking lot, tea booth, a restaurant....i am still certain I am missing out on somethings...
N.M Joshi Marg is truely one of a kind.
It is one of those roads that represents the heart of India. And the best part is nobody sees this. 1000's of people trot down or drive down this road every day, treating it like it is just another jam-packed Mumbai lane.
Have those of you, who are from Mumbai ever been to N.M Joshi Marg in Lower Parel? If you have, you too like every one else would have grumbled at having landed on that crammed little lane and probably made a mental note to avoid this lane in future. But, if you looked closely, you would have seen that this was not just another crowded Mumbai lane. Had you stopped to smell the flowers, or in this case the fish and the country liquor, you would have noticed that there is something special about N.M Joshi Marg.
I visit N.M Joshi Marg everyday. The entrance to my office compound is on this road. I am fortunate to have noticed something about this road. This stretch of about 1KM distance has everything. Really. EVERYTHING.
There are little saree shops, shoe shops, a tailor, medical clinics, pharmacies, groceries, a flour mill, a kabbadi vyayamshala(exercise place for Kabbadi players), residential complexes, commercial complexes, entrance exam coaching classes, fish market, country fowl market, deshi daru bar (country liquor bar), flower shops, cobblers, a school, an astrology shop, xerox booth, a PCO booth, a pest management shop, a temple, a jeweller, a local railway train station, street vendors selling sundry items like combs and twine thread and safety pins, vegetable vendors, cats, dogs, crows, kids playing toy cricket, men and women rushing to and from office, students mugging up for exams, little school children enthusiastically bidding each other farewell until the next day, retired gentlemen just lounging about, taxi stand, parking lot, tea booth, a restaurant....i am still certain I am missing out on somethings...
N.M Joshi Marg is truely one of a kind.
It is one of those roads that represents the heart of India. And the best part is nobody sees this. 1000's of people trot down or drive down this road every day, treating it like it is just another jam-packed Mumbai lane.
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