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Traveller you are now approaching the mysterious
world of India. You are about to arrive in
Mumbai.
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Enter the Gateway. Enter Mumbai. Enter India
itself.
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Now close your eyes and listen to the
streets. Listen to the noise. Feel the life of
India.
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Good day, my name is Pradeep Sharma, but you can
call me Pradee. I will have the pleasure to be
your guide to Mumbai. Bombay as it was once
called changed its name to Mumbai in 1996. Though
the name Bombay already went back to the times of
the Portuguese ( Bom Bahia, meaning good bay) the
latter change was a change back to the roots. As
Mumbai derives from a word used by the ancient
Koli fisherfolk for one of their godesses Mumba
mother. So dont be confused and think that the
famous city of Bombay in India did suddenly
disappear.
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Useful side info

• Pradeep Sharma is an officer of the Mumbai
  police.He is Indias and probably the worlds
  wildest shooting policeman.Hes now 13 years on
  duty and so far he has shot 87 suspects.
• This makes you now a very safe man.
• But try to stay behind him.

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Ancient yet modern, faboulously rich yet achingly
poor, Mumbai is India in a microcosm. But it is
even more than that, there are things that you
can only find here, not only in India but even
worldwide. Mumbai is home of many different
groups, it offers room for even the weirdest kind
of traditions, languages, religions and people.
I mean like really strange people, not like
you and me normal, you know.
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Mumbai is a huge mosaic.

• Language
• There are 200 different languages and dialects
  spoken in and around Mumbai.
• The most spoken language is Marathi, the official
  language of the district of Maharashtra.
• Surprisingly though being the second most spoken
  language on planet earth Hindi only ranks 4th.
  English is even more behind finishing on a
  disappointing 12th place.
• In spite of this English remains the language of
  the upper classes and the language of almost all
  influential newspapers.

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• Religion
• The religious picture of Mumbai is as complex as
  languagewise.
• In comparison to other Indian cities the number
  of religious minorities is surprisingly high. The
  percentage of Hindi followers is about 70. This
  might sound much, but 30 of Mumbais population
  equals 3.6 million people. Thats quite a few.
• The second most influential religion is Islam.
  The 15 that they make up creates a strong
  antidote to Hinduism. As they stand close
  together and focus on certain branches.
• Mumbai is very tolerant and offers space to even
  the strangest religions.

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Side info

• Mumbai is also the home of about 60000 Parsi. The
  Parsi religion has a more or less unconventional
  funeral tradition. Outside of Mumbai on Malabar
  Hill stand the towers of silence. The Parsi,
  instead of burying their dead, lay the bodies on
  these towers and wait for the vultures to do
  their job. But in Mumbais challenged environment
  the number of vultures has drastically reduced.
• But Parsi religion shows us that tradition and
  innovation can get along very well.
• They do now use chemicals to speed up
  decompostation and, this will make
  environmentalists happy, solar powered heaters.
• Now imagine that in your city.

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You see, lot of strange people around here. But
how should this be any different, I mean were a
little crazy. Just look at our culture rich and
mysterious. But the big thing today is something
completely different Bollywood. Like my mother
living on the countryside, she lives in the
middle of nowhere, they dont even have running
water there, but guess what. They have a cinema.
She knows all Sharukh Khan movies by heart and
thats sure a lot.
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Bollywood

• Mumbai is the home of Bollywood, the name derives
  from the old name of Mumbai, Bombay.
• Bollywood is the worlds largest movie industry
  releasing over 900 movies every single year. If
  you somehow get the weird idea of watching all
  these movie in a row, it would take you 4 months.
  And this without going to the restrooms.
• Mumbai itself has over 600 cinemas, including
  huge, modern multiplexes. Every village in India,
  no matter how tiny it is, has a cinema.
• Though having a potential customership of
  hundreds of millions the industry is nowadays in
  slight decline. Reason for this are the growing
  success of TV, which in Mumbai is only available
  since 72, movie piracy and mob-like structures
  within the business.

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Side info

• The popularity of Bollywood actors is so immense
  that some of them already became elected for
  parliament.
• The members of their party consist of former fan
  club members.
• So if you ever get the chance to join one of
  these clubs, do it.
• You might end up as minister of foreign affairs
  of India.

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You see Mumbai is a place where anything can
happen. So now well continue our tour but
wait what is this strange feeling. Oh just a
second.
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Ah, thats better! Get your ears cleaned
regularly and youll lead a happy life. Where
was I? Oh yeah, anything can happen here. Like
during the building boom The Brits wanted to
build a justice hall so they hired some Indian
workers to build the statue of Lady Justice. One
could now expect that typical for India it took a
bit longer. But what a surprise was it when they
finished their work just in time. The result was
a surprise too The statue turned out to be an
one eyed monkey holding the scales of justice.
That can only happen in Mumbai.
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• But dont let us be an one-eyed monkey.
• Let us take another look around.
• Let us take a walk through all parts of
  Mumbai

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lets enter the streets of Mumbai, first of all
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As you can see, local traffic in Mumbai is a
catastrophe. Streets and means of public
transport are crowded, local trains which are
designed to carry about 1000 passengers are
filled with more than 6000 people for example. ?
THE important issue for most middle class people
in Mumbai is getting from point A to B Long
distance traffic however is developed much better
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The just seen harbor as well as the international
airport connect Mumbai to the world and
globalization the effects are lively visible
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• Due to various international influences, Mumbais
  culture and society differ from the rest of
  India
• International cuisine
• cricket and soccer are popular sports
• Christmas is celebrated
• Cnb (adapted from lonely hearts ads) Caste is
  no barrier for relationships
• ? many people from all over India come to Mumbai,
  hoping to escape poverty (approx. 40 of Indias
  GDP are earned in Mumbai) and strict social
  rules.
• Unfortunately, this is where many of them end up

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• ? ½ of the Mumbai population lives in slums
• those residents have no access to
  infrastructure, there are constant threats to
  hunt them away
• there is hardly any help from the authorities ?
  they have to help themselves. This might look
  like this

? people will do all kinds of jobs those who
can afford services like cleaning your ears,
cutting your hair or cleaning your shoes on the
street will pay for them
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You should not only expect to find the most poor
living in Slums Imagine that A University
lecturer gets up in the morning, puts on his good
dress, goes to work and greets his slum-neighbor
who sells junk on the way. The lecturers
neighbor is likely to earn up to three times as
much money in his job. Thats Mumbai Still,
education is of high value in Mumbai over 1000
public and private schools and the famous
University of Mumbai prove this.
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Thank you for following me through Mumbai and
letting me show you this truly unique,
multicultural city. I hope you have enjoyed the
tour and got an idea of the feeling of Mumbai.