Mumbai is the most modern commercial center city in India, and its status is similar to that of Shanghai in China. Mumbai is also a representative of India's opening-up cities, and its development speed is quite fast. So is there a subway in Mumbai?
there is a subway in Mumbai, and the car body is made in China.
Mumbai subway is the largest city in India, and the urban rail transit system of Mumbai, the economic center of India, started operation in June 214. At present, * * * has 1 line and 12 stations, with a total length of 11.4 kilometers, and 3 subway lines are under planning.
on June 8, 214, the first subway line of Mumbai, India's largest city with a population of nearly 3 million, was opened to traffic. This line is Line 1, with a total length of 11.4 kilometers and 12 stations. It will run 2 to 25 times a day, with a total carrying capacity of about 1.1 million passengers.
The vehicle supplier of the subway line here is Nanjing Puzhen Vehicle Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China South Locomotive. In May, 28, Nanjing Puzhen won an order for 18 trains of 18 wide-body vehicles in Mumbai in international bidding, which is the first time that China South Locomotive signed a contract for overseas export of metro vehicles.
in December p>28, the first train of Mumbai subway rolled off the assembly line. Nanjing Puzhen delivered the train as scheduled in March 21. After that, China South Locomotive successively won the metro vehicle contracts for two lines of Gourgand in New Delhi and Gourgand South Extension Line in New Delhi.
Almost everyone who talks about Mumbai compares it with Shanghai, so do China people and Indians. Just as Shanghai is the most prosperous city in China but not the capital, Mumbai has the same status in India.
Indians are proud to talk about Mumbai. In their minds, this vast city with messy infrastructure is second only to new york on earth. China people have mixed feelings when they talk about Shanghai. Although they know the strength of Shanghai, they just don't feel like showing off.
Mumbai men always show their identities when they go to other Indian States, which will attract many envious eyes and beautiful women's favor; Shanghai men seldom say that they are from Shanghai when they go out, because the words "Shanghai men" represent meanness, narrow-mindedness and gossip in the eyes of Chinese people. Although we have Yao Ming, Liu Xiang and Yu Chunshun, who is known as a "strong man", it still doesn't help.
two cities have different temperaments. Shanghai is like a fashionable young man wandering in the market, wearing a forward hat and suspenders, full of the charm of the Republic of China and aristocratic style. Mumbai, on the other hand, is an uncle with a curved beard and a greasy face who checks tickets at the entrance of the theater, lazily looking at the people passing by, holding a dirty milk tea cup in his hand.
I like this uncle, not only because I spent the most precious year and a half with him, but also because I released myself without any disguise on the stage he provided.
Naipaul said that Mumbai is a theater, and Indians are very good imitators. I walked into this theater with trepidation at first, only to find that they didn't have a director or rehearse, and they imitated what they wanted to be the most. So I feel relieved and play all kinds of roles I hope in this city.
The beautiful scenery of Mumbai has melted into the filth of the city. India Gate is magnificent, Victoria Railway Station is fantastic, and Taj Hotel is extravagant. But just like the red betel nut juice vomited by millions of people on these magnificent buildings, the garbage everywhere, the old people defecating in the street and the crows foraging for food magically weaken the grandeur and beauty of the city scenery, and everything seems to be shrouded by the huge fog transpiration from the garbage dump. The nostalgia for the past is diluted and the cozy mood is broken.
I have always had a wish to wear a coarse shirt and jeans, lead a camel, bargain in Egypt's dirtiest flea market, buy handmade water bags, compasses and unpalatable food, and then disappear into the vast desert to explore the underground secrets.
This wish keeps pressing my impetuous heart from time to time, and makes me spend every dull day with strange thoughts. I haven't been to Egypt yet, but I found the same feeling in the streets of Mumbai-I jumped off an old JEEP car in a local Indian gown and plunged into a messy market.
There are vendors and gangsters here. I look for what I want and bargain with them. Everything is so exciting that I feel like exploring-every time I come out, I think I am exploring, which makes me love my job very much and enjoy it. Therefore, Mumbai has made me realize an important wish in my life in disguise. It is really a good theater, trying to make a dream come true for you.
It is the carrier of countless dreams of life, and its film is full of delicate and vulgar stories. From this point of view, Mumbai is not like a metropolis. It lacks that dignity and shelf, but is more friendly with hippies.
In its boundless theater, it is a huge carousel, and all people are in a daze.
Mumbai is dizzy and enjoying everything it has: colonial relics, economic center, DreamWorks, Bollywood, slums, crows, feces, sewers, spices and noise, which are combined in an extreme way, forming the aesthetic feeling of drama, a Shakespeare style.
Its ubiquitous and surprising drama elements make people who are involved in it sometimes awake and sometimes intoxicated, constantly changing the identities of actors and audiences, and completing their life-long performances in the confusion between dreams and reality.
Mumbai came into people's sight as a dowry.
It was 1661, and Mumbai, which had been ruled by the Portuguese for more than 1 years, became a British colony with the marriage of Princess Catherine and King charles ii of England. Known as the most luxurious European royal court wedding in the 17th century, it attracted everyone's attention at that time.
However, as one of many royal weddings, it is well-known to the world not because of its grandeur and luxury, but because of the seven islands in Mumbai and the oriental black tea that became popular in Europe because of Princess Catherine's tea-drinking hobby.
After the wedding, charles ii was plunged into the Dutch war for more than ten years and a series of sectarian conspiracies, while Catherine spent the rest of her life in the pain of infertility.
Mumbai completed its legendary birth in the drama life of the king and queen, and in the modern history of the world for more than 3 years, it sometimes ran a walk-on and sometimes rushed to the front, performing all its plays dutifully.
In p>1668, charles ii leased Mumbai to the East India Company. As a result, the largest cotton market in the midwest of India was born here, and the plot to split the Mughal Empire and depose aurangzeb was also born here. It became the base of opium trafficking in the Far East and the supply line of the British army during World War I.
Mumbai's gradually mature commerce obscures its strong colonial flavor, but Indians don't care about it. It doesn't matter who rules. As long as oppression and plunder can be tolerated, they can live their own lives, with money first and entertainment first.
The Mughal Empire was originally from outside, so destroy it. Opium is sold to China, so plant it; Sikhs are martial, so be it when they are recruited as soldiers.
In the 19th century, the world stage drama continued. As the headquarters of the East India Company, Mumbai was full of anger, lamentation, frustration and surprise, but all the emotions could not be expressed. The softness of Mumbai and its swaying posture made everything chaotic. No matter in the past or now, his performances have presented a sleepy and hazy texture that is self-conscious, true and illusory, and is not perceived but indispensable.
As a large city, Mumbai sits askew on the Arabian Sea, smoking hookah, gossiping and lying on the floor, taking care of the urine and eating. Although the business is developed, the concept of urban function is diluted, and the whole city presents an idyllic atmosphere. All elements, whether commercial films, literary films, historical films, comedies and tragedies, are mixed together, which makes Mumbai unique. It is just a palette and a big sauce jar.
In p>1917, a skinny old man came to Mumbai. His name was Gandhi.
It seems that Mumbai people don't buy the policy of non-resistance. After Gandhi was imprisoned for the second time in 193, the people who had always been weak suddenly hardened, and the people of the Mumbai resistance organization clashed with the Indian police and the British army, killing 6 people and injuring 6 others. Gandhi was amazed and made a voice questioning violence in prison; The people of Mumbai are also amazed. Most of our injuries and bleeding are not due to your arrest?
after the shock, it is still respect, although with a little reluctance. Gandhi's residence in Maribavan, Mumbai was protected and transformed into Gandhi Memorial Hall after the independence movement.
Photos of Gandhi's life and daily necessities are on display, and some Gandhi-themed stamps and books are sold in the small hall on the first floor. The quotations from Gandhi's life were also collected by Mumbai people, printed on the roughest handmade paper, and collected for sale as MAHATMA (Mahatma), with unique features. After all, every theater has a leading role. Since Gandhi is regarded as the father of our country, we might as well let him be first hero for a while.
the strength of Mumbai lies in its forbearance. Once in a while, it is enough to surprise the world. Mumbai people are not reserved, but have the traditional Indian publicity in their personality. They are not tyrannical, and the public security here is much better than that in Delhi.
They are just in the play, performing wholeheartedly for the splendor of this grand theater. Gandhi called for non-violence, and Mumbai people must be violent at an appropriate time;
There are constant conflicts between partition of india and India, with heavy casualties in various states, and this place is not backward. The terrorist explosion happens every two years, and few cities except Baghdad can compare with it. There is no explanation, and everything is a plot.
in this case, we might as well build a drama factory. History is a play, and life is a play, so if you dig out every bit, isn't this a movie? Thus, Bollywood appeared.
Once this dream factory came out, it ranked first in the world with its huge film output. All the film plots are all conventional, but Indians just like it; Mumbai's landmark attractions have repeatedly appeared on the big screen, and they just don't get bored;
The song and dance scenes never stop. Whether foreigners like watching Bollywood's narcissistic performances or not, Mumbai enjoys the aura that comes from it.
people regard watching movies as an important part of their lives, after all, they have to imitate them in their daily lives. The title of each film is the government's permission to show, and the certificate of ink has a sense of historical vicissitudes on the big screen;
After the screening permission, the national flag is displayed, and the audience in the theater stands up and sings the national anthem; After the national anthem, there are advertisements, public service advertisements and new film previews; After the advertisement is the plot, basically you can predict the end after reading the beginning;
halfway through the plot, there must be singing and dancing; After the last song and dance, it must be a happy ending. This is the Indian film, which is made in Bollywood, Mumbai.
Bollywood movies have influenced China, except Caravan and Wanderer in 198s. In recent years, asoka is the masterpiece of war epic, which makes us know Shahrukh Khan. Last year, slumdog
millionaire, a film about Mumbai by British director danny boyle, caused a sensation all over the world. Before that, a book "The World is Flat" truly showed the traditional charm of India. At the end of 21, "3
Idots" caused a whirlwind of Indian films in China. In fact, this retarded film deserves the title of "Bollywood rotten film".
If you want to be profound, don't watch Bollywood movies. If you like excitement and melodrama, you must watch Bollywood movies. The feeling of these films is the feeling of India and the character of Mumbai. This theater is very noisy, and Mumbai people like this feeling very much, which makes them feel happy and forget the sadness and unbearable life.
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Everything is chaotic, and this is a chaotic city. This kind of chaos makes people love and hate, and there is no way to make any accurate evaluation of him. Perhaps, as Mark Twain said, "Any evaluation of India is correct, but the opposite view may also be correct because it is too complicated." Mumbai is the representative of this complexity.
If I could have been born centuries earlier, I would have sailed across the Arabian Sea and set foot on the land of Mumbai on the side of India Gate. It was the early morning of the 18th century, and the dense fog on the sea obscured the brown-gray tone of the whole city.
I will ride in a carriage and listen to the horses' hooves banging on the bluestone floor. The city is full of idle British troops, and Sikh guards wrapped in big cloth heads are at the door of every store.
Go along the long coastline known as the "Queen's Necklace", find an elegant cafe to sit down, order a curry-flavored breakfast, drink a cup of unsweetened coffee and read the post of the day. Then I got up and stepped into the depths of the city.
The city is humid and greasy. The huge banyan trees are intertwined with stone houses. There are mothers-in-law who come back from shopping, children who run barefoot, and children who sell peanuts. Whose firewood smoke comes out? It's to make breakfast for children who get up early for school.
The doll who just woke up sitting on the windowsill, staring at the stranger with wide eyes, feels so clean. Although it has been several centuries, it is still as fresh as ever.
At this time, the seven islands of Mumbai have just been connected by filling the sea, and the smell of sea water permeates the city. This is the supreme merit of hornby, the British governor of Mumbai, and has laid the foundation for Mumbai to become a metropolis.
The land where Mumba incarnates, a fantasy island in the Arabian Sea. I am a foreign visitor, wandering between waves and mountains all my life. The grottoes in Elephant Island pass through my fingers, and I play the soul of the East in Gothic Castle in Victoria Railway Station. The clouds in the west pass through the sky, and the bodhi in the shady trees is the Buddha.
I prostrated myself in the temple and prayed that God would give me every miraculous encounter, meet my desolate soul and meet a pure smile growing in my heart. I spent the night in the slums, playing with children like mud and listening to their stories about poverty and warmth.
Smoke and clouds are flowing, and everything is changing, but Mumbai remains the same. Even if there are many tall buildings, it still resembles the flavor of a fishing village. I walked through its dazzling theater lights, through centuries, through every downtown and temple, but it seemed to be still all the time. I stood quietly in the flying time of Mumbai, still dusty and noisy, still continuous tone and strong color.
I reached out and tried to seize every moment left for me here, but in vain. This theater is too big, it covers every kind of light and shadow illusion and delicate emotions. When you walk through it, there will always be different people holding your hand and singing and dancing. This city has left me too much. I want to empty my memory and experience, but there is always something left, so let's stop here, in the memory of Mumbai like a play and a dream.