Nature Trail - I

No other builder in Mumbai can boast of the project as close to nature as Mahindra Eminente in Goregaon(West) Mumbai. Mr Arun Nanda, the respected chairman of the organization can file the claim for this award too, in addition to another award and honour already bestowed upon Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Limited for conceptualizing a project as beautiful  as Mahindra Eminente, at least on paper & colorful sale brochures.

Wanna know what makes me say so?

Come on, join me and my friend for a leisurely daily constitutional on the podium of this complex. Lets start from approximately North west corner. As we continue our walk on the northern side of amphitheatre watch your steps – Don’t step on the snails crossing your walkway and going towards amphitheatre.

Turn your neck little more to your left and you will see one stray tommy camouflaging in the midst of plantation and chewing on the bone expecting the meat and completely oblivious of the fact that meat has already been chewed off by one of the residents who tossed it down on the podium form his villa in the sky.

Turn your neck little more to the right and you will see the amphibians doing theatrics in the water puddle in amphitheatre, emanating that Tarr-tarr, signal of mating invitation to feminine amphibians. Don’t wait there too long unless you are interested in penning your own dissertation on the topic of amphibian mating techniques..

Continue further towards the east, beside lush green lawns of overgrown grass, we hear that buzzing sound of mosquitoes and small colony of them circling over our head. If you run from them they will run too with a relative speed of zero and maintaining their position above your head.

Don’t run too fast unless you want to run the risk of stepping on the dog poo left behind by some fancy looking pedigree dog, who had done padh-yatra on the same stretch of walk-way, donning the doggy rain coat and held onto the leash more expensive than Gucci belt. Alas! Dog’s mother didn’t train the puppy in toilet manners nor could she afford a diaper. That’s why for poor puppy whole complex looks like a big private commode, a perception seemingly shared by the dog handler as well as by dog owner. Now don’t ask me where that puppy chooses to get his derriere cleaned before stepping back into posh doggy-house. Even if you persist and continue to ask, the nearest I can get to the answer is – our own water-body within this Mahindra Eminente Complex, which is very aptly and popularly known as “Bhaucha Dhakka” of Goregaon Mumbai. I wonder when that Doggy diaper will be available for sale on supermarket shelves. I hope sooner rather than later.

By now, we have traversed enough distance to reach the banks of “Bhaucha Dhakka”. Take a quick glance and only thing missing to complete that “Bhaucha Dhakka” look for this water-body can’t be anything other than scaled down size equivalent of that  piece of junk ship “WISDOM” which has been disgracing the shores of Mumbai till recently before it was finally towed away. The way WISDOM cocked a snook at collective wisdom of shipping & security authorities , same way this water-body aka Bhaucha Dhakka cocks a snook at the collective wisdom of architects, managers and consultants of Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Limited who cheekily refer to this ugly looking energy guzzling and water-guzzling water body as the focal point of this complex.

As if the collective wisdom of all others was not enough that another consultant incharge of cleaning this water- body – Mr Dolphin, added his two bit of wisdom by pouring two drums of hydrochloric acid  in the water in his zeal to retain his claim of reputed provider of water-body cleaning solutions to array of five star hotels. Success is what eluded him but what didn’t elude him is the success in sharking away the chunk of maintenance funds day in and day out in the name of cleanliness, from right under the nose of snooty developer- MLDL.

Lets not slow down our pace of leisurely Nature Walk, unless you have armoured yourself to fight the onslaught of Culex, Anopheles, Aedes aegypti and other pedigreed mosquitoes who will be too happy to inject plasmodium vivax and similar other viruses of unpronounceable names and surnames, into the blood stream of homo sapiens residing within this flagship complex by none other than Mahindras.

Continued to "Nature Trail – II”…………