Bombay ...

We arrive early Saturday morning in Bombay. The biggest mess of a city I've ever seen. The town is packed with residents, high rises, and shanty towns. Like all other major cities, it suffers from pollution and congestion. But what realy sets Bombay apart is the sheer scale of magnification of these problems. Traffic doesn't move slow - it simply does not move. The the pollution is bad .. I mean everywhere. Another problem is the cabs. Man, you think a cabbie should know his/her town relatively well. The truth is that Bombay cabbies are notorious for not knowing their way around town. Example ... we jumped into a tuk tuk for a lift back to the hotel (off a major intersesion, next to the airport) ... so it's not some whole-in-the-wall place. We drove for over an hour before the cab ran out of gas ... then he admitted he didn't know where he was going .. dissapointment is an understatement.

The cooler parts of Bombay are definitely tyhe art scene, the old colonial history the Brits left, and the Bollywood Center - Film City. We actually had a chance to visit Film City and met with a leading director (actually it was totally on the fly, and we got really lucky to present Erik's film). It was well received, and hopefully more will come about of future collaboration.

Afterwards, we headed back to the airport, and caught a flight down to GOA .. hopefull;y, more chill & less dirty.