E-lane Conversion

Blogger friend, travel chronicler, photographer and pet lover, Magiceye, posted this visual as part of his "Mumbai Daily : ABC Wednesday-W" (W=waiting) series.

The location is Bandra East, one of Mumbai's north-western suburbs, home to one of Mumbai's first long skywalks.  While folks may think this traffic is bad,  regulars in Mumbai have seen much worse. For Mumbai, this looks like an unnaturally wide sidewalk, with what most would consider a "sparse" crowd for the bus :-)

Thats probably why the telephone company chose this location for their ad.  Maybe.

(photo by Deepak Amembal Magiceye) 

Erstwhile
broad roads,
traffic
suddenly self-expanding
from 3 lanes to 6,
as
fellows on bikes
navigate dangerously
through traffic gaps,
a bus
stopping
way outside the stop,
impatient folks
stepping out
to see if it has arrived;
we are such experts
at converting
everything to narrow band.

An unnaturally wide
sidewalk,
with a sparse crowd
at the bus stop
(by Mumbai standards),
and
its only up there
in the sky,
away
from the perennial sky walks
now fashionable
in
proletarian Mumbai
that the telephone company
can claim,
in all this confusion,
to offer you,
"truly unlimited broad band"
:-))