12 Fascinating Things No One Told You About Mumbai

Mumbai is a total spoiler. It is going to spoil you forever by giving you so many choices, exquisite places to hang-out, mesmerizing shoreline, a new anecdote every day and an undeniably unequivocal life, however there are things about this place that no one told you.

Let me tell you some not so palpable things about Aamchi Mumbai:

1. Mumbai was presented by the Portuguese to the British as dowry

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Bombay was really named by Portuguese pilgrim Francis Almeida from Bom Bahia, truly signifying ‘the Good Bay’. The British were in consistent battle with the Portuguese vying for authority over Bombay, as they remembered its vital regular harbor and its characteristic separation from area assaults.On 11 May 1661, the marriage of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, little girl of King John IV of Portugal, put Bombay in ownership of the British Empire, as a feature of endowment of Catherine to Charles.

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2. Super-Dense Crushload- An official term for the extreme overcrowding on Mumbai’s commuter trains

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Fourteen to 16 people per square meter, or 550 people in a train compartment designed to carry 200, to be exact. The term came into usage when people were appalled by the death of 4,357 people on Mumbai’s railways in 2008: the bulk of those killed were hit by trains while trespassing on the tracks.

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3. Gilbert Hill – A 65-million-year-old hill in Andheri West, a suburb of Mumbai

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A 200 ft stone monument segment of dark basalt rock. Disregarded by numerous, this hill is actually one of the main two slopes found in the whole world, of the same kind. The other is the Devil’s Tower in northeastern Wyoming in the US. Right now, the slope is secured by slums and over-developed creepers.

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4. It has the largest national park in the world, located within the city of a metropolis

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Sanjay Gandhi National Park covers 104  km2 and stays as a standout amongst the most visited parks. The rich flora and fauna of Sanjay Gandhi National Park draws in more than 2 million visitors consistently. The long dating history of this park goes back to the 4th century BC. The Kanheri Caves that dwell right in the middle of the park were chiselled out of a humongous basaltic rock.

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5. An archipelago of initially 7 different islands were joined together via land recovery over a compass of five centuries. This was carried out to create Mumbai as a harbor city

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By 1845, the islands had been merged into one landmass by method for different area recovery ventures. The subsequent island of Bombay was later combined with the adjacent islands of Trombay and Salsette that lay to its North-east and North separately to structure Greater Bombay.

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6. The place where republican nation of “India” was first formally expressed in 1885  is now dark and deserted, with paint peeling off and locked up behind a rusted gate

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The main Congress met at Tejpal school close Gowalia Tank. Over this school is the ground (now August Kranti Maidan) where the British were at long last approached to leave Indian for good in 1942 by Gandhi and others. The republican period of the Indian autonomy development, as it were, began and finished in this city, nearing a full circle.

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7. An ever-increasing backlogs of cases

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At last count, the number of pending cases was more than 300,000 including some 40,000 criminal cases. Which really reflects the national legitimate circumstance, within overabundance of 4 million pending cases in all the High Courts, and around 30 million pending cases in Trial, High and Supreme courts across the nation.

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8. It will cost you more than 3 Lakh rupees to build a house in Dharavi

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Mumbai doesn’t just have the largest slum in Asia, but probably the most expensive one also. Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum and lodging about 300,000 individuals, and the slums in Kurla-Ghatkopar, Mankhurd-Govandi and Bhandup-Mulund – all bigger than Dharavi – represent more than 50% of Mumbai’s 12.4 million people.

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9. The Churchgate railway station in Mumbai neither has a church nor a gate

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A few different spots have unexpected names; Victoria Terminus (where Queen Victoria never dwelled), Mahalaxmi Temple (which is at Haji Ali and not Mahalaxmi), Breach Candy (where there is a clinic, no confections), Lohaar Chawl (which has no ironsmiths) and a few others.

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10. Country’s first central business district and one of the most expensive place in the world, Nariman Point is actually debris

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A well known pioneer of the Congress, Khurshed Nariman, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation corporator, proposed to recover the region from the ocean close to Churchgate. To perform this assignment, trash from different parts of the city was dumped here and the shallow ocean coast was filled. The whole cost was assessed to be INR3 lakhs (now INR10 crores).

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11. 90 % of employment occurs in the informal sector

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Whether its kin cloth singling out the avenues, peddling products of the soil, clearing, throwing vada pav, or, yes, reusing in Dharavi, the span of the casual part and rate of the city’s specialists it utilizes has soar following the ruin of the city’s modern and assembling divisions in the 1980s and ’90s.

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12. There was a day when it rained death and gold in Mumbai

On the  evening of April 14, 1944, as World War II boiled over in the most distant corners of the planet, Mumbai was writhed by two colossal blasts that sent a destructive shower of blazing metal and gold ingots rushing down upon the city. An expected 800 individuals were killed in the impacts, 231 of them from the dock administrations and blaze detachment. It is still observed as a Fire Brigade Day in the city.

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The erstwhile Bombay is not there anymore, but Mumbai has won all hearts unquestionably.

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