Are these the simple aspirations of city-dwellers hemmed in by the urban sprawl? Not quite, these are just a couple of entries from Mumbaikars’ Bucket List...
MUMBAI: Believe it or not, Mumbaikars were pondering something profound at home as the clock counted down to 2008.
“I want to travel to space,” says 24-year-old Jacob Rebeiro. “I want to see if the earth looks the way it does in all the Hollywood films.”
“I want to take a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway,” says NGO-worker Kiran Shekhar. “Doctor Zhivago is my favourite film and I love the setting.”
Are these the simple aspirations of city-dwellers hemmed in by the urban sprawl? Not quite, these are just a couple of entries from Mumbaikars’ Bucket List (a list of things to do before you kick the bucket).
“The one thing I would love to do before I die is go skydiving in Barbados,” says model Shayan Munshi. Indeed, skydiving seems to be one of the dominant entries on Mumbai’s Bucket Lists.
In keeping with the adventurous trend, housewife Anita Almeida says she wants to “swim with Great White sharks.” Shreyasi Bhattacharya, a student, wants to take drinking and driving to the next level: drinking and paragliding.
“I would like to sip the world’s most expensive wine while paragliding over an uncharted island,” Shreyasi says.
Shalini Puri, a BPO executive, when told that Hollywood star Orlando Bloom’s Bucket List mentions ‘Learn to play the Bongos’, is beside herself with joy. “That’s on my list too, along with ‘learn to play the piano’. Maybe Orlando and I could form a band,” she says.
Singer Kailash Kher says he wants to see India a developed and economically independent country before he dies. “A true, shining India. That’s what I want to see.”
Rohan Jhungare, a student, is refreshingly pragmatic when he says that, for him, it’s about leading a life sans regret: “Before I die, I want to look back and say I’ve led a full life, without regrets. That’s the only thing on my Bucket List.”
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