Images of people stopping their vehicles to click selfies on the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link bridge alerted me to the excitement with which this latest feat of engineering has been greeted in Bombay. It was as if some residents had never seen a long and unbroken stretch of tarmac before, which is understandable given that most roads in the city have been dug up for years now. The MTHL will probably be dug up in a month or so, too, but it’s new for now, so I empathised with that sense of excitement. If I were to take that road, I’d probably consider stopping for a selfie, too.

It sometimes feels as if there’s so much happening across the city, in terms of development, that I can’t keep up. Every other week begins with a new life-changing project being announced, developed, or inaugurated. It’s a relentless series of celebrations that makes me want to lie down because I can’t cope with all the exhilaration. How can we all cope with so much progress? It boggles the mind.