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Mumbai
The City of Dreams

A city that never sleeps, a city that is always on the run. Magical, it draws you like a magnet. A city where thousands of dreamy-eyed men and women arrive every day in search of their dreams. A city where the very poor live next to the very rich in an astonishing symbiosis of demand and supply. And Mumbai has place for them all. Bursting at the seams, and groaning under the weight of millions, it still dazzles like a land of dreams.

Mumbai, the financial capital of India, pulsates day and night. It is a city that is young at heart. Here you won't encounter grim-faced and grey-suited executives – Mumbai is fast-paced, trendy and rocks from the word GO!

It is the most multicultural city in India. Its diverse ethnicities impart to it a flavour that is at once most intoxicating and invigorating. Mumbai speaks its own language. True, the official tongue is the regional language Marathi (spoken in all parts of Maharashtra), but Mumbai has a unique way of speaking which is a mix of everything, from English to Hindi, to Marathi, to whatever other language one can think of. It coins a new word almost every day!

The common man in Mumbai is tough. Life is hard, but Mumbaikars are proud of being in the land of dreams, and each moment counts.

Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest is perhaps the aptest description of life in Mumbai. Restless, it never stops to think and is always on the run. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere – a business deal has to be struck, a house has to be bought, a child has to be admitted in school ... 

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