Sonia Faleiro

"On Tuesday I was having a pedicure and manicure when my wife called and warned me about the floods. I ignored her warning then but by five when the situation got out of hand, and the calls became more frantic I realised the gravity of the situation. My driver's phone was unreachable so I simply decided to walk it up (after all that parlour experience). On my way, I picked up some pastries from Birdy's for my kids. The water was chest-deep so I had to hold the packet high above and wade. Then at some point I decided to swim the remaining distance (a few hundred metres) and that was how I reached home. The next day I took my children out to show them the chaos and the wreckage that had been caused."

Marc Robinson, choreographer. (Site down because of the rains. Will link shortly). And this update courtesy Amit Varma:

"The fashion show and launch party that was to officially mark the arrival of international fashion and accessories brand "Guess?" in Mumbai has been postponed from August 3 to sometime in September. "It'’s going to be a lot of work coordinating dates for all the models and the brand’s head honchos in New York, but I feel this would not have been an appropriate time to have the show," says events man Marc Robinson.The model-turned-choreographer has himself been stranded in the rain twice already--once on Tuesday and again on Sunday--having to walk home in deep waters on both occasions."

And here we are berating the man for eating pastries while Mumbai drowned. For shame.

poor man must have been traumatised - imagine, driver's cellphone unreachable and the prospect of serving his children soggy pastries... worse, his pedicure all gone to waste in the chest deep water. he now needs to make a fresh appointment for the whole hand-feet routine

Wonder if those pastries survived the adventure. And here's one more gem from Mr Robinson, this time in the Hindustan Times, under the title of `Helping Hands'.

`I had to walk home in neck-deep water. I kept telling the people who were swimming to stop doing that because there could be some live wires and one could get electrocuted. A few listened but others just continued. I also kept telling people to keep to the middle of the road as with the flooded streets, it is safer to walk in the centre to avoid potholes. I could not do much."

Maybe he should have distributed those pastries as well.

Nice one depicting the actual situation..
But the article is not found!!

I can't decide what to feel more sorry for - Marco's ruined pedicure, the uneaten pastries, or his missing marbles...

Oh, and the link (much like the poor simian's career) isn't going anywhere.

Talk about self-obsessed - is this dude for real?

Perhaps they should make a movie with Robinson in the lead. They could title it ... Ek Sundar Bandar, Mumbai Pothole Ke Andar.

Keerthi

So sorry to hear about Marc's misfortune. The "chaos and the wreckage that had been caused"
seems to pale in comparison!

I hope the nail color on his freshly buffed mitts was longwearing...

Sorry all, the newspaper's online edition is offline because of the floods. Please wait a day or two for more on Marc's "misfortune."

I wonder how did he manage to swim the last 100 meters whilst still holding on to the pastries.

I remember my swimming instructor telling me to swim with both hands ...unless ofcourse Marc has come up with some trully innovative style of his own .