When Rome was burning...

Just imagine a colony of ants. One fine day an ant finds a large sack of sugar. She traces her way back to the colony and intimates the whole lot about this new found food stock. The entire colony gets together to collects every single grain of sugar until the sack is totally empty. This process goes on for a month till the sack was half its original weight. One morning the owner of the sack came to know about this so he started killing the ants with his foot. He tried every way to eradicate the whole lot of ants, but to no avail. Despite their fellow ants got killed, the other ants had to work because without this their survival was impossible.

Mumbai is the sack, the ants are the mumbaikars. I am an ardent Puneite and have been in Mumbai since the past 1.5 years. The place is a huge mess and we can do nothing about it. Mumbai, in spite of being one the most active and prosperous cosmo city in the world, is the most unorganized city in the whole world. People in here live for a single purpose and that is to 'live'. The poor are used by the richest as a political edge and the middleclass doesn't care cause he doesn't have the purpose to care. Why would anyone do anything about a neighbor's burning house when his own home is on fire?

The software industry has a huge money-market with less work to do. Today a billable resource (i.e. The Great ME) is writing this mail. Such mails can only trigger a nice way to waste as much time as we want with the boss appraising you as a best employee.

We are the modern ‘Neros’ of the new Roman empire and all of us are fiddling when actually are Rome is burning.