The politics of jams
With political shenanigans at fever pitch, areas in the vicinity of key leaders’ homes become extra-busy. Kalanagar in Bandra East is no exception. The residence of the Shiv Sena chief is at the eye of the storm, which consists in this case of vehicles taking up all available parking space on the main road, side roads and even curves.

This has made movement difficult for other traffic, to say the least, but stoic residents of the area are by now inured to the hullabaloo. As a bus conductor calmly (and confidently) told an impatient passenger during one such traffic snafu, “It will be like this till elections.”