The actor, who was advised complete rest after recurring abdominal pain, has recovered, he wrote on his blog. He also compared New York's infrastructure problems with Mumbai's.
Actor Amitabh Bachchan, who was advised complete rest last week after recurring
abdominal pain, has recovered and is undergoing physiotherapy for backache.
"Pain in the stomach has gone. Life is pleasant. Sometimes, its better to execute caution and desist from overboard exuberance on one's condition, for fear of it going all wrong again!," Bachchan wrote in his blog after his family returned from Singapore.
Wife Jaya, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya were in Singapore to be by family friend Amar Singh's bedside during his kidney transplant operation. However, the actor stayed back as he has been on physiotherapy and sound and laser treatment at home for his backache.
Bachchan said the doctors told him the backache was due to the way he sits on a chair, and the way he bends toward his laptop "MR MACBOOKPro", to update his blog and interact with readers. Hence, he has been advised to sit on two extra pillows, with a support collar around his neck.
The actor also wrote that municipal authorities from the ward where he lives visited him yesterday to explain certain facts and measures being taken to solve the problem of flooding during heavy rains. "They had been disturbed to read my description on the
blog of the situation and desired to come over and explain," he said.
"The suburbs where I live and particularly the Juhu Scheme is a low lying area. These were swamp regions without any life or existence. Jaya and I waded through tall grass on foot to get to 'Prateeksha' and approved the place because we felt it was the edge of then Bombay and a place of peace," Bachchan wrote on his blog.
"It is now the centre of this metro geographically, because of the development around and beyond it. The canals have colonies living on its banks due to shortage of space,
not to mention the massive construction boom accelerating its pace every hour. When nature strikes, it would be humanly impossible for any administration to bring relief," he wrote.
"As I said earlier, I have seen and been in New York during a severe snow storm and the city stopped functioning for three days. New York has been one of the more important, modern and richest cities of its time, it underwent development, which was way ahead of other cities in States. Now with the passage of time and fresh and more
advanced development technologies in place, which the other cities have had the benefit of, New York begins to look archaic. And there are moves now to modernise it to keep up with modern terms and conditions."
"I believe all fast growing and developing metropolises in the entire world face a similar problem. Mumbai is no different. In Mumbai, moves are afoot for improvement. The
tenacity of the human has always been under test and somehow some solution has always come forward."
About Mumbai, Bachchan wrote that now that funds are in place — on the initiative of the prime minister — the canals are being widened and people living along it are being
rehabilitated. "And several pumping stations [are] being installed at phenomenal cost to physically pump any excess water that collects in the canals and the drains, into the sea, even when there is the danger of the high tide."
The actor signed off with an "immediate warning and caution — 24th of July 2009. Reason. Its going to have the highest and strongest high tide of the decade !!."
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