Vir Sanghvi is an angry man. He is unhappy with what is happening to his 'Bombay'.
In an editorial in the Hindustan Times he writes:
"Something strange is happening in the city of Bombay, and I'm not sure that anybody knows quite what it is yet. We are all familiar with the caricature of Bombay’s more affluent citizens, the one that so entertains and infuriates the rest of India: laidback, vacuous people, only interested in partying hard and making money, unaware that the world does not end at Juhu."
"Bombay is my city so I've never quite accepted this characterisation. But yes, even I have been angered by the willingness of Bombay-ites (I'm sorry but I'm not going to call them Mumbaikars) to sit back and party as the city is raped and pillaged by gangs of invading politicians, all of whom win their elections in rural Maharashtra and then go on to make their fortunes in the city of gold."
Which is all fine. Then he writes this:
"Then, there's the fuss over the Peddar Road flyover. If this monstrosity is built, it will completely deface South Bombay, obscure every heritage building and totally alter the city’s character."
Really???
And this:
"After the Bombay floods last year, everyone woke up to the realisation that though Bombay pays Rs 60,000 crore in taxes every year, it gets back only Rs 1,000 crore for infrastructure. That statistic is shocking enough. But it was only after I moved to Delhi and was able to see how much money was spent on South Delhi that I realised what a bad deal South Bombay really gets."

So if a flyover is built at Mohammed Ali Road, it is necessary since that part of town is congested. And when it's built on an equally-congested Peddar Road, it's a monstrosity?
And the Bombay that he refers to is actually South Mumbai. South Mumbai does not pay Rs 60,000 crore in taxes, Mr Sanghvi, the whole of Mumbai does. The Mumbai, that is north of Mahim, pays the lion's share of that. On which nearly 50 flyovers have already been built. On which another 45 are going to be built. Are those 'monstrosities'? Are we going to stop building the infrastructure of the city so that people can gawk at the so-called heritage buildings?
The fact of the matter is that the city needs to get cracking on its infrastructure. And a lot of work is being done. If that means there’s a flyover going by my window, I better accept it. Or go and live elsewhere.