A few days ago I nipped down for an sunset stroll on the beach and lets just say I'm glad I kept my shoes on. Never did I imagine sand could be multi-coloured! Lots of people were paddling but I never got near enough to the noxious looking sea to risk getting even one toe wet. Not that means there is nothing to do, like the rest of India, most of life is in full public view on Juhu beach in the evening - obligatory spicy snack and juice stalls, kiddies rides, ice cream sellers, fortune telling robots, kite sellers, beggars and of course lot of polaroid toting men happy to capture you with the rainbow sand under your toes. All to the backdrop of thousands of inpromptu cricket games concluding due to bad light at sunset!

Maybe next time they will have sorted a better solution for the cities waste than pouring it straight into the sea but, as Bombay is one of the world's largest cities and still growing, I'm not too hopeful.