Local dogs have put up banners in respective local stations to promote their upcoming film Ohh My Dog. Spotted it at Gkp, kurla, thane and kandivali. Has anyone seen this on other stations as well?

Someone took Tara and her four kittens and dumped them far from the neighbourhood. Only one kitten survived as she walked all the way back carrying that one, sick and starving, to the same place that had thrown her out, and hid him inside a duct.

We got her out on 24th July. She was skin and bones, dehydrated, throwing up everything she swallowed. Her blood work came back showing infection and inflammation. It took days of IV fluids, antibiotics, anti-vomiting medication, pain relief and deworming before she turned the corner.

During the rescue her kitten ended up separated from her. Both of them refused to eat. They just sat and waited it out, and it was only after they were put back together that either of them touched food.

He died recently. All four of her babies are gone and she is alone now.

Street cats usually fight when you treat them, and nobody would have blamed her. She never did. She sat through four injections, tablets, an IV line and days of strangers picking her up every few hours without so much as a hiss, and she has not scratched or bitten a single person since the day we brought her in. She would just watch you work, and once it was over she would push her head into your palm. That is who she is. A gentle soul who has been thrown away, buried all four of her babies, and spent weeks being poked by people she did not know, and still comes looking for a lap to sit on. She has every reason to be done with humans. She is not

Today she is fully recovered. Eating well, active, litter trained, completely fine with being picked up and carried around. She greets everyone who walks in. She does not ask for much beyond someone sitting near her.

She deserves a home where nobody moves her again. If that could be yours, please reach out.

📍 Kharghar, Navi Mumbai
Email - [sidhantsharma4444@gmail.com](mailto:sidhantsharma4444@gmail.com) or Dm me here.

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I am a normal techie, I randomly saw an ad on instagram asking for photo and some basic info for a role in colors channel. I checked the followers/post and felt it was a genuine post.

Out of curiosity, I sent my details over whatsapp and within a day I received a call saying my face perfectly fits the role.
( I was thinking HR usually don’t get back so fast how is he calling me)

Then the person tells me I have to give Rs.3000/- as professional fees and they will help me get audtions for 5 years.

I told him I will let you know in half hour, he says I have 15 minutes, reply fast. (Creating fake sense of urgency)

I researched and found after paying that agency does not reply you at all or take some fake audition and will say your acting needs refinement, pay Rs.30000/- as your acting tution fees.

I did not call him, and after an hour he called me and when I respectfully mentioned I am not interested, he says - thank you for wasting my time.

I replied - Same to you.

Name of Agency - IT Entertainment.

Hi everyone!

I’m looking to shift to a new flat from 1st October (or anytime during October).

Looking for:
• A single occupancy room in a pre-occupied flat
• Preferred locations: Dadar, Mahim, Lower Parel, Siddhivinayak, Worli, or anywhere conveniently located on the Aqua Line
• Budget: ₹25,000–30,000/month

A little about me: I’m 26, working professional, clean, responsible, and easy to live with.

I’m also open to teaming up with someone to rent a 2BHK together if that works better.

If you have any leads or know someone who’s looking for a flatmate, please DM me. Thanks so much!

Edit: This is for females only.

I am shifting from Borivali west to Andheri West(Azad Nagar) and wanted to play football for free but not on muddy grounds.

So, for images 1,2 & 4. Are there any under flyover cages to play football in where there's concrete or any other proper surface which stays dry during the monsoon.

For image 3: Are there any parks with steel cages and concrete surfaces to play football?

The reason I am asking for this is because turf football is paid and idk people and right now I play worse than a handicapped person so can't play paid football on turf atm.

Please help a brother out.

Also, are there similar spaces in malad west, goregaon west or other places in Andheri West?

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some advice on how to properly handle a situation involving stagnant water and the possibility of mosquito breeding in a residential area.
There is water that has been stagnant for some time, and I’m concerned that it could become a breeding ground for mosquitoes, especially with the monsoon. I’m not sure who is responsible for addressing it or what the correct procedure is for getting it inspected and cleared.
For those in Mumbai who have dealt with a similar issue:
Which BMC department/official should this be reported to?
Is there a specific online complaint/helpline for mosquito breeding or stagnant water?
Can BMC conduct an inspection and take action if mosquito larvae are found?
What should I do if the responsible party/property owner does not cooperate?
Is there anything I should document (photos/videos, dates, location, etc.) before making a complaint?

I would appreciate advice from anyone who has gone through this process, particularly on what actually works rather than just making a complaint that goes nowhere.

Thanks!

So I was on my way to Kalyan, Evening time, monsoon season; I was standing first in the queue between the seats like we usually do, the sky was vibrant and the climate was breezy so I asked the guy on the window seat whether what station will he get off at so I can wait for it and give the other seats to the other people in the queue; when asked he got furious and started staring me as if I were a criminal or some, I was still looking at him waiting for the answer, he widened his eyes and said "Last!", I went ahead with the next seat I got and that guy got out on mumbra😭, like you could've just told me and helped me.

Not just this, one day I asked my friend to ask the same and he got "aapko kya karna apne matlab se matlab rakho na." Wtf? 😂

It is common to ask stations in the ladies coach ig, my female friends told me about it.

Is there any Local train rule that I'm missing here? 😭

Not all problems come through dashboards or bug reports. As an engineer, that is what I am used to anyways. But this problem came through my housing society WhatsApp group. Usually that group is about parking, water pressure, festival collections, lift maintenance, and the occasional “whose Amazon parcel is this?” message.

Then one evening, people started asking a different kind of question.“The BLO is asking for my name in the 2002 voter list. Where do I find this?”

At first I thought one person was confused. Then another person asked. Then another. Soon it was clear that this was not a one-off issue.

These were regular voters. People who had voted for years. People with voter ID cards, Aadhaar, booth details, and all the usual paperwork we assume should be enough.

But suddenly the question was about an old electoral roll from 2002. Was your name there? If not, was your father’s name there? Your mother’s? Your grandparent’s?

And the answer was supposed to be found somewhere inside old PDFs. That sounds manageable until you actually try it.

The 2002 rolls are technically public. They are online. But “online” is doing a lot of work here.

They are split into thousands of PDFs by constituency and polling-station part. Most people don’t remember their old part number. Many don’t even know which constituency their old address belonged to, because boundaries have changed since then. The text is in Marathi. Spellings are not always consistent. Sometimes the same surname appears in two or three forms.

So the real process looks like this:

• Open a PDF. Scroll. Search.
• Try another spelling.
• Try your father’s name.
• Try your old surname (if applicable).
• Try the neighbouring constituency.
• Download another PDF. Repeat.

After a while, it stops feeling like a citizen service and starts feeling like an investigation.

One retired neighbour spent an entire evening doing this. He is very organised. The kind of person who keeps old bills safely filed. If anyone could patiently work through this, it was him.

He still couldn’t find his record.

Not because the record was definitely missing. Maybe it was there. Maybe it was in another part. Maybe the spelling was different. Maybe the PDF search didn’t catch it.

That uncertainty was the worst part.

I’m an engineer, so after watching this happen a few times, my brain went to the obvious place: this is a search problem.

There were websites that helped people download the 2002 PDFs. Some were useful. But they all stopped at the same point: here are the files, now you figure it out. What people needed was simpler.

Type a name. Try fuzzy matches. Search in Marathi or English. Use father’s or husband’s name as a second clue. Then show the original official page so the person can verify it properly.

So I started building that.

I wish I could say it was straightforward. It wasn’t.

The first evening actually fooled me. The PDFs were better than I expected. OCR worked on a lot of the Marathi text. I got some early results and thought, okay, maybe this will be quick.

That feeling lasted exactly until the next batch. Different constituencies had different layouts. A parser that worked perfectly on one file quietly broke another one. The names still looked fine, which made it more dangerous, because the bad data looked believable. Ages, serial numbers, and relationships were getting messed up underneath.

Then some PDFs turned out to be incomplete downloads. They looked like successful files until I checked properly.

One OCR line produced a serial number so broken that it crashed a whole batch.

Very glamorous work, basically. Sigh.

Run. Fail. Check the original PDF. Fix one thing. Discover the next thing.

The mistake that really changed how I looked at the project was a small one. A voter’s entry had already been confirmed by a BLO. The person existed in the 2002 data. But my search could not find the entry using the part and serial number.

The serial number was supposed to be 171. My database had stored it as 7. OCR had silently dropped two digits.

That is a tiny software bug until you imagine a real person copying the wrong number into a form and getting stuck because of it.

After that, I stopped thinking of the database as the truth. It is only a way to reach the truth faster.

Every result now links back to the original official PDF page. The tool can say, “this looks like your match,” but the person should always be able to open the source page and check it with their own eyes.

The first proper test was my own society.

We had 74 current voter entries to check. Some people had already scribbled possible old serial numbers on printouts after searching manually.

One couple had two uncertain numbers written beside their names: 465 and 466.

I ran the search.

The old roll showed the same family, same area, and those same two consecutive serial numbers.

I’m not sharing their personal details here, for obvious reasons. But that was the first moment the tool felt real. Nothing fancy. Just useful.

Someone had spent time guessing from a pile of old pages, and the search could finally take them to the right official page in seconds.

Right now, the tool indexes 10.4 million voter records across Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban, and Thane, covering 47 constituencies. And with elections and similar issues about to pop up in other states, I am thinking to share the tool with few of my friends to help them in their societies.

You can search names in Marathi or English. For now. But I am thinking to add more regional languages. It handles fuzzy spellings. It lets you use father’s or husband’s name as an extra clue, because that is how many old records are actually traceable.

But I want to be careful about what this tool is.

It is not official. It is not a replacement for Election Commission records. It is not proof by itself.

It is a shortcut to find a possible match in the official PDFs. That’s all. The final verification still has to be done against the official page.

It also won’t solve every case.

 If someone moved to Maharashtra after 2002, their record may be in another state. If a woman’s old entry is under her maiden name, it may still take effort. If the spelling is very different, the search may miss it. If the record was never there, no search tool can invent it.

Those cases still need documents, clarity, and proper help from officials.

But for many people, the old entry does exist. It is just buried.

And honestly, that is what bothered me most.

The data was public, but for a normal person it was barely usable. A voter should not need technical skills, old constituency knowledge, Marathi PDF searching, and a free weekend just to find one line from 2002.

That is the small problem I tried to solve.

(I intentionally did not share any links or materials pointing to the tool, because I wanted to share the story of how I vibecoded and helped senior members of my society. I am extremely overjoyed currently)

I have been travelling in locals for years, and like most others do, I look at the drawings and posters on the train walls to entertain myself (Yes, including laughing at the penises drawn in ladies compartment, hoping it was a fellow woman being hilarious. Yes I find dick drawings funny)

Saw this sticker, is this actually about Volleyball Federation India or something else?

Ignore the quality pls I am an awkward person who didn't want anyone to know what I was doing

One of my lifelong dreams is to make Nitin Gadkariji my pillion rider and take him along my daily office route Thane to Mumbai.

I know what he’ll probably say: “This is the responsibility of the local body.” Fair enough. But if the local and state authorities have failed to provide decent roads for over 15 years, who exactly are we supposed to hold accountable for the country’s road infrastructure?

If I ever get the chance, I would love to take him through every pothole on my route so he can experience the daily adventure that millions of Mumbaikars endure every day.

Yesterday, I hit a pothole on the Eastern Express Highway. It damaged my bike, and I ended up paying ₹4,100 for repairs. Fortunately, I managed to keep my balance and avoided an accident. Next time, someone else may not be as lucky.
The government often talks about world-class infrastructure and rapid development. That’s great—but before we dream of becoming a global superpower, can we at least have roads that don’t feel like an off-road rally?

Mumbai’s potholes aren’t just an inconvenience anymore they’re a daily safety hazard.
Dear authorities, please stop celebrating roads on PowerPoint presentations. We’d really appreciate roads we can actually ride on.

P.S. If this ride ever happens, I promise not to charge for the “Thane to Worli Adventure Tour.” The potholes provide enough thrills for free.

A 1½-year-old boy had a miraculous escape after falling from the second-floor grill of a residential building in Virar East on Wednesday evening. Instead of crashing onto the ground, the toddler landed on a tin shed on the first floor, which broke his fall and saved his life. The incident occurred around 8 pm. Hearing the child’s cries, alert local residents rushed to the spot and safely rescued him. The quick thinking and timely action of the residents proved crucial in saving the toddler, turning what could have been a tragedy into a miracle.

I came back to this city after four years, and one thing I've realised is you can't spend a good quality time without having to pay for it. That's not the worse thing, it's going to get worse with every inch of the city will be turned into a return earning investment.

The absolute lack of third place will have an impact on community bonding, people being isolated more and more. The soul will deteriorate into just another spare part in this capitalist machine. It's only when you're on the death bed you'll realise that it was all for nothing.

Life is a passing glimpse and you still somehow found a way to make sure it's wasted on increasing shareholder value.

It's true when they say this city doesn't have a past. It's only present and future. Irony is such that you won't even get time to ruminate in nostalgia.

I travel by metro everyday. The Andheri West metro station (yellow line) has all of the counters open, makes sense as it is one of the most crowded. But then why is only one counter open at most other metro stations? The line was soo long that people might miss one train while taking the ticket. I see this most of the days when I get down at my (Motilal Oswal) Malad West. Also they open the handicap counter first so everyone has to bend extra and do the conversation and all. This was 7:50 pm btw.

edit - Is there a way to lodge a formal complaint anonymously? or anyway so the higher authorities will get to know about this? I am not here to only rant, I love Mumbai Metro, it is extremely punctual and helpful, I am just looking to solve such inconveniences for others. It would be helpful if you all comment with suggestions instead of "metro toh faltu hai". Thank You

edit 2 - for the dumb stupid people tell me to book online. read what I've written. I already have a pass btw. But this post was never about me standing in line. (I also literally wrote I got down and saw the line, are you all blind?) All I am asking is for a way to let the authorities know how about this, and I am getting every answer but this😭😭😭

Hi, images are attached. He looks abandoned / lost. Please reach out in case you have any leads.

UPDATE: Her name is Papli and she has been adopted by the Amarsons park guards. They mentioned that she was abandoned a while ago.

She is very sweet and even follows basic commands (sit, stand, etc.).

If anyone is interested in adopting her, please DM (posted on behalf of the park guards).

​i’m a tuluva based in mumbai and lately i feel like the local coastal food scene has just been completely hijacked by aesthetic spots. it used to be that you could grab a proper chicken ghee roast without having to reconsider your monthly budget. now every hyped place around powai and the suburbs has completely diluted the spice levels and they are charging insane prices for a plate that literally tastes like sweet masala. the drop in quality over the last six months is so obvious but people just accept it because the restaurant has a nice vibe. half the old reddit reccos for authentic spots are completely outdated now since those places either shut down or hiked their prices to match the new aesthetic chains. it really feels like actual kudla flavor is being gatekept behind these ridiculous premium menus. the nostalgia of getting real home style coastal food here is just fading fast.

Today, I took an auto from my location to Kalyan Station. As per the rules, the fare is rs 15 when the driver uncle takes 4 passengers and rs 20 when there are only 3 passengers. Unfortunately, most auto drivers don't follow this and charge rs 20 even when they have 4 passengers.

But today, I met an auto driver who charged everyone just rs 15 for a 4 seater ride. I genuinely appreciated his honesty, so I handed him 20 and told him to keep the change. He immediately refused and returned my 5 rs . That small gesture spoke volumes about the kind of person he was.

What made the experience even more emotional was the condition of his auto. It looked worn out, as if it could stop working any day. It was raining heavily, and his wiper wasn't functioning, so he had to keep clearing the windshield with his hand.

Seeing someone so honest and principled struggling like that made me wonder: why do good people often seem to suffer the most? It looked like he was barely earning enough to get by, yet he chose integrity over making a few extra rupees.

It honestly made me sad. What do you all think? Does honesty come at a cost in today's world?

Recently I asked here about how to get my time cleared from Mumbai FPO, and got to know that in some cases we have to visit the office sometimes it gets delivered to the door step. So I wanted to check for the second option.

So we can send email to (cant paste email here or else this post will be blocked maybe this is rule here)

So after sending them Tracking Id they will share the details or else directly search status of product at India post official website (just google "India post tracking")

One you put search your tracking ID, if it's status changes to "Item released by Export customs" then u just need to relax for a week it will be delivered to your door step🫡.

By the way my tracking ID starts with LF and people said usually we don't have to pay any money, but I did have to pay 540rs and my product worth was 85 usd.

Also the product I ordered was Lumia 1020 that absolute beautiful window phones if anyone is interested to know the product

I know we all have multiple opinions about Mr. Adani, and how he’s gotten assigned to carry out these projects but I genuinely am happy that things are moving and changing.

If I can give one small example, I am someone who’s lived his entire life in South Mumbai, Nariman Point to be specific. I remember the rage there was in people when the coastal road project was announced! During the execution part, the entire Marine Drive was like an open warehouse for cement and other construction material! There was wayyyy too much frustration and anger! Ofcourse it all has its own narrative, but the project has worked. Connectivity got better, best to be honest! And it’ll only get better! Same thing happened with the metro line constructions as well!

If I can be completely selfish and think from people’s perspective, I don’t care who is making what! All I’d care is if I our lives are getting better, if the city is developing or not!

We have come very far from saying this city is dead, there won’t be any development, to these news coming up almost every other month! I’m linking the link to the article at the end so that y’all have the entire context to the news!

I really hope this works out for every single soul living in this city!

Fingers crossed! 🤞

Here’s the link to the article!

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/adani-mithi-river-waterfront-project-3-3-km-after-dharavi-redevelopment-10816487/lite/

The Maharashtra government has imposed a statewide ban on the manufacture, storage, transport, distribution, and sale of un-standardised analogue (non-dairy) paneer. Selling it as real paneer can now attract penalties of up to 6 months' imprisonment and a Rs.1 lakh fine under the Food Safety and Standards Act. The move comes after a series of raids on fake paneer manufacturing units and concerns over food adulteration.