Everywhere I look, I can see new constructions coming up. 20 and 30 storey skyscrapers are sprouting up, like mushrooms in the rotting bark of a tree. I have a very well placed cousin whom I requested to guide me to buy a flat for my daughter who wants to marry. He just directed me to magic bricks .com. And now my email inbox is flooded with updates from 'magicbricks' with offers of a home in Karjat, Kalyan and Virar. South Mumbai or Central Mumbai is nowhere in the offers, because my budget is less than 20 lakhs.
If only I had a crore or even a little more like one and a 1/2 crore, I could get my child married and settled. Maybe this year Lalbaugcha Raja can fulfil a few of my wishes too. 'The boy' even tried his luck and his wits to participate in Kaun Banega Crorepati. He got into the first interview round, but then he was not called back, because 'why do you deserve to be in the show?' must not have been the criteria that the organisers wanted.
But WHO can afford these expensive homes???? Obviously rich business men, mostly from Gujarat. Shiv sena honcho, Mr Thackeray, can you help Maharashtrians to buy a decent home, please. Actors can afford luxurious bungalows, Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone etc. No wonder that all and sundry aspire to become 'Bollywood actors'. I think it is a very good deal if Alia Bhatt can earn crores, just by kissing on screen. What luck to be able to be in a position to earn such easy money, while so many Bollywood hopefuls get used and abused and suffer ignominy, in their pursuit of fame and bounty.
When Reliance boss, Mr. Mukesh Ambani built his Antilia, Mumbai earned another world landmark. The next one will be "India Towers" at Wadala. At 125 storeys high, it will be the second tallest man-made structure in the world. WOW. But where and how will I get a residence for my child?
I spent my childhood in Pune. We lived in a bungalow, with fruit and flower trees and plants, and a pond. I had the privilege to present colourful dahlias, lilies, ferns and pink scented roses, to my teachers, daily. We always had fresh-from-the-trees, lemons, guavas, chickoos, figs, bananas, pomegranates, mangoes, drumsticks, lemongrass and kadipatta. We had 2 pet dogs, and a dozen hens. Our car was parked in one part of the bungalow. We, the kids, my brothers, my cousins, my neighbours, all of us played hide-and-seek, catching cook, 7 tiles, four corners, tippery, badminton, and of course cycling. It was heavenly. And here in Mumbai, I live in a one bhk flat.
I can empathise with Sunny Leone, in that she can easily buy a penthouse in Mumbai. She does what she does and earns her way into a posh lifestyle. So, I was wondering, who are the other people who live in these posh flats.
I have numerous friends who have a Mhada flat. They have rented out the flat and with that money, they have invested in a south Mumbai flat, and they pay rent and have taken a housing loan for the flat that they reside in presently. So, this means that many Mumbaikars, own at least three residences...what a rigmarole. I presume that the government's policy of waiving off tax on a housing loan, is the root cause of this circle within a circle syndrome, or more suitably, the house within a house syndrome.
Dear Lalbagcha Raja, please help me to gift a home to my daughter, as a wedding present.
If only I had a crore or even a little more like one and a 1/2 crore, I could get my child married and settled. Maybe this year Lalbaugcha Raja can fulfil a few of my wishes too. 'The boy' even tried his luck and his wits to participate in Kaun Banega Crorepati. He got into the first interview round, but then he was not called back, because 'why do you deserve to be in the show?' must not have been the criteria that the organisers wanted.
But WHO can afford these expensive homes???? Obviously rich business men, mostly from Gujarat. Shiv sena honcho, Mr Thackeray, can you help Maharashtrians to buy a decent home, please. Actors can afford luxurious bungalows, Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone etc. No wonder that all and sundry aspire to become 'Bollywood actors'. I think it is a very good deal if Alia Bhatt can earn crores, just by kissing on screen. What luck to be able to be in a position to earn such easy money, while so many Bollywood hopefuls get used and abused and suffer ignominy, in their pursuit of fame and bounty.
When Reliance boss, Mr. Mukesh Ambani built his Antilia, Mumbai earned another world landmark. The next one will be "India Towers" at Wadala. At 125 storeys high, it will be the second tallest man-made structure in the world. WOW. But where and how will I get a residence for my child?
I spent my childhood in Pune. We lived in a bungalow, with fruit and flower trees and plants, and a pond. I had the privilege to present colourful dahlias, lilies, ferns and pink scented roses, to my teachers, daily. We always had fresh-from-the-trees, lemons, guavas, chickoos, figs, bananas, pomegranates, mangoes, drumsticks, lemongrass and kadipatta. We had 2 pet dogs, and a dozen hens. Our car was parked in one part of the bungalow. We, the kids, my brothers, my cousins, my neighbours, all of us played hide-and-seek, catching cook, 7 tiles, four corners, tippery, badminton, and of course cycling. It was heavenly. And here in Mumbai, I live in a one bhk flat.
I can empathise with Sunny Leone, in that she can easily buy a penthouse in Mumbai. She does what she does and earns her way into a posh lifestyle. So, I was wondering, who are the other people who live in these posh flats.
I have numerous friends who have a Mhada flat. They have rented out the flat and with that money, they have invested in a south Mumbai flat, and they pay rent and have taken a housing loan for the flat that they reside in presently. So, this means that many Mumbaikars, own at least three residences...what a rigmarole. I presume that the government's policy of waiving off tax on a housing loan, is the root cause of this circle within a circle syndrome, or more suitably, the house within a house syndrome.
Dear Lalbagcha Raja, please help me to gift a home to my daughter, as a wedding present.
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