The buildings rose from the filth with damp-black walls, colourful clothes waving in the wind like bright flags, each proclaiming a victory. A victory of life against the odds?
Multistoreyed buildings so close to each other that one could hop from one roof to another. Spiderman would have saved a lot of web...
The heavy sea air was laden with the smell of sewage and refuse. Plastic burning?...
The Sumo raced up a flyover, weaving through the traffic. As we rose, we saw more of these buildings jostling for a breath of fresh air, for a piece of the sky...
The sky was silver, bright and blinding but the light was no match against the darkness these concrete monsters held within them...
I was there... intimidated... mesmerised... dwarfed... awed... disgusted... overwhelmed...
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I would've been -> intimidated... mesmerised... dwarfed... awed... and overwhelmed...but I would've never been disgusted. I have an appreciation
for the concrete monsters because they
act as benchmarks to show the advancement of civilizations.
Thanks for the comment in my blog though. :-)
You did not see the filth that the people were subjecting themselves to, Akshaya... It is not exactly the concrete monsters that disgusted me...
it was the state in which they were... how badly they were built...
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