Mumbai and Mobiles
Mobile roaming charges
Mumbai is something extraordinary. The rapid rise of industrial growth is staggering to witness and even when I was there, many more skyscrapers were being built in the distance. India may be a second rate power at the moment, but give them another twenty years and they’ll be right up there with China on GDP.
I stayed in Colaba, the backpacker district. It was friendly enough and I was able to get a cheap bed to sleep in. However my phone was out of credit so I set off to find the nearest phone shop or internet cafe to see if I could get a top up. The first place I came to was an internet cafe so I thought I’d update my blog and do some surfing to see if I could find anything useful. As well as loads of adverts for Bollywood I found a great deal that would give me a flatrate fee on my phone for internet and calls no matter where I was in the world. I’m writing this update from my phone!
As I was leaving armed with my new contract I was approached by several scouts from Bollywood asking me if I wanted to work as an extra on a film tomorrow. Recalling an article I’d read back in May on the BBC about a backpacker who’d had this happen to him, I declined. I hate Bollywood films, and I was in no mood to be bossed about and made to sing and dance when I’m bad at both.
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