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Fri. May 8th, 2026

War or not, there’ll always be cake

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South Mumbai has lately started to feel a little – backward, so to speak, because the traffic moves. Jokes apart, last weekend, crossing Colaba Causeway, to get to a dinner, felt like the good old days. Long queues outside pubs, people out on the streets, buying or haggling, and cars, barely moving.

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