Saturday, September 25th, 2004
Appointments with the lord
Mumbai isn’t all work and no pray.
Along with a diary for work and social engagements, most Mumbaizens have a diary for religious and spiritual occasions. The city works around the first half of the clock, rocks around the second half of the clock and manages, by working the phones, to beat the clock even in choked traffic.
But the metropolis that doesn’t find time to catch its breath, does, miraculously, find the time to pray. As people drive past the sacred stretch of sea that runs between the Haji Ali and Mahalaxmi shrines, they bow their heads and shut their eyes and a prayer plays on their lips.
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