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Move over Beijing, here comes Mumbai!!! The recently concluded Beijing Olympics got so much hype that even people who are generally disinterested in sports were heard raving about Abhinav Bindra, Vijendar Kumar and company. However, what is even more interesting is that we Mumbaiites are at par or at times even better than some of the best Olympians in history. The only thing is that we have never realized this and hence have not thought of giving it an honor of an Olympics. So today after realizing this here’s a version of what a Railway Olympics in Mumbai would look like, if ever we have the fortune of having one. Please Note: 1) The categories have been tailored to suit the activities performed before, during and after one has boarded and alighted the train. 2) There are no bifurcations between Central, Harbor and Western lines made as we Mumbaiites believe in “United we stand, Divided we fall” philosophy which is true in the literal sense also considering the situations in which we...

“Creativity”- the word itself conjured up motley images right before my eyes. Painters, writers, actors, dancers, musicians and the list goes on. For the record I do not or rather did not consider myself to be creative due to the precise reason that I did not fit into the above mentioned images. However, I got rid of my myth one fine day in an Integrated Marketing Communications lecture a.k.a Advertising. The lecture required us to prepare an advertising brief for two products and so the Professor before giving us the assignment asked if any of us did not consider ourselves to be creative. There I was amongst the first very few people to raise her hand. What happened in the next ten minutes has acted as some sort of an impetus for me to start writing a blog. The Professor gave us three random words Nail, pebbles and river and asked us to come up with a story using these. I don’t how, what or why but the minute he said that I put my pen to the book and couldn’t stop writing until he int...