The Sea Link

Any guesses what this is?

This indeed is the Bandra-Worli Sea link that was talked about the most in the last one month. Or a decade I should say. I still remember the chaos it started with what sounded as a revolutionary idea almost fifteen years ago, I was still in the school then. A bridge in the sea, solution to the hugely increasing traffic in Mumbai? Well, half of the junta looked at it like a miracle. The media which was not half crazy as it is today still praised what may emerge as a miracle and of course as one the signs that will prove that we are not really a third world country. And the rest made it sound like a biggest controversy of the century. Right from the pollution to the great losses of the fishermen who fish in the stretch of the Bandra-Worli sea, every protest featured prominently on front pages.

Last week when I drive over this sea-link, the skyline of Mumbai that was visible from the bridge gave a sign of Mumbai is sure one impressive city. And as I drove further in the heavy rains, I couldn’t resist but capture this sight on the camera of my cell phone. Sometimes, you don’t need to express the feelings in words. In the middle of the sea, watching the mighty Mumbai at a little distance, it gave a sense of pleasure just by being on this bridge.

Also, happened to read a piece of news last week where a fisherman in the same area was interviewed. He expressed pleasure over the fact that there is an increased variety of the fishes that were not so common earlier which are not found around the columns of the sea link!

All's well that ends well, I guess.