Out of a frying pan and into another

In my last decade in Mumbai I had to put up with endless traffic snarls as the city went through a spate of construction. There were new roads and bridges, flyovers and tunnels under construction. During my last months in the city I benefited from all the lost hours fretting in traffic. Drives that used to take an hour could now be done in half the time. But through it all, I could not help thinking that all this was being done for a city which would be partly under water in another twenty five years. It might all seem a waste in some time. Still, if we’d stayed in Mumbai we would have enjoyed quicker travel times for the next ten or fifteen years perhaps.

Instead we relocated to Pune. And it turns out that Pune is now going through the same process of road constructions that I was stuck in for the last decade. That gives me a lot of time to photograph the activity that I did not think of doing in Mumbai. It is interesting I find to take photos of the unfinished traffic flyovers and the people making them. Specially when I see doors waiting to be fixed into doorways. I learn new things when I take photos like this. For example, I didn’t realize that road construction projects would need staff to manage traffic.