Archana, my father and I were in town for a meeting. We decided to have lunch at the Taj and left the place only at four. At the outset we thought it would be just another jam that would clear in an hour's time.I was worried about our children but after some panic, the driver told me that the kids were in his sister's house. We were relieved and decided to stay back at a relative's place in Bandra.
We walked down from Bandra to Irla next morning. A Good Samaritan gave us a lift up to Andheri. Even as we walked I experienced for the first time the true spirit of Mumbai. It was a community feeling that kept all of us going. At Andheri we got into a BEST bus and hopped off at Seven Bungalows bus station. Some old memories came flooding. It was the place where Archana and I stayed when we were still courting 15 years ago! We decided to take a ferry from Versova and almost 24 hours after we had left Taj, we reached home.