Mumbai no longer a safe city

How safe are you in Mumbai, which is considered to be a fairly safe city compared to many others. Various incidents of murder, suicide and freak accident during last one week must have given a shivering experience of unsafe urban lifestyle to the Mumbaikars.
Crime scene in Mumbai is worsening with every passing day. It has already reached an alarming level, but there is nobody to care for that.Neither government and certainly nor police, who are busy with many other activities.
In such a situation as the Mumbaikars have been coping up during last few months with news, received with regular intervals, about lonely senior citizens being murdered, they were shocked this week by an incident of murder in middle class locality in Borivli. The victims this time were not lonely senior citizens, but a family of a middle aged woman and her two sons, aged three and eight. They were hacked to death after the husband left for his work.
This incident was preceded by suicide by three members of a family. First a mother and her 16-year-old son got themselves hanged when the father had gone for a morning walk. Unable to overcome the sorrow caused by loss of the family and a guilt feeling that had he not gone for the morning walk may be the incident could have been avoided, the husband also jumped to death after two days. Police are baffled over earlier suicides as the notes by both the mother and son clearly say ''they are ending their lives'', but do not cite any reason.
In between, an elderly couple was murdered at Badalapur, a town on the outskirts of Mumbai. And in Mumbai a group of youngsters was caught trying to organise thefts in the homes of cricket legends Ajit Wadekar and Sunil Gavaskar. These youngsters used to meet both of them on cricket ground.
As if the loss of lives in murders and suicides were not enough, a freak accident in Oberoi Hotel claimed life of a young model. As she was proceeding to the swimming pool of the hotel, a windowpane of an emergency exit way on 25th floor fell on her. All these incidents highlight one important point as to how life in megapolis has become risky.
But there are adventurous people who are willing to risk. Dipti Pradhan and Chandan Thakur are among them. They are so much in love with adventures that they want to make even their marriage an adventurous event. They don''t believe in Voltaire''s quotation ''Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly''. For them marriage is one of the adventures and it is not for cowardly, but even for brave also.
Their courting began at a very high altitude, on mountains in Ladakh, when Chandan, a chemical engineer, organised adventure tour; engagement happened in mid air with groom and bride hanging on mountaineer''s ropes exchanged rings and marriage will take place next week underwater, in a swimming pool, with both of them and few others wearing diver''s gear will perform the ceremony. May be, over the years only such people will be fit to stay in Mumbai, if the current deterioration in law and order situation continues unabated, thanks to police and politicians.
But there are people, who, with their positive initiatives, keep trying to make Mumbai a good place to stay for all. An organisation in Vile Parle organised an exhibition on models of trains and a series depicting progress of aviation, on the occasion of 150 years of Indian Railways and 100 years of first flight.
In another programme the master of 64 houses, Chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand was challenged by underprivileged kids from a charity organisation on his own home turf when they got a chance to play against him. For them playing chess with grandmaster was an experience.
It is these type of people, small or big, known or unknown, celebrities or common, who make the people''s uncomfortable, unpleasant and risky living in urban jungle meaningful and happy to some extent.