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Jan 10, 2000 |
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 What the heck !
It's not what you're thinking. This is bungee jumping, the latest fad to catch the fancy of mad mad Mumbai. Zaveri had seen the stunt in a cola ad on TV, others drop in just to "check it out". For those who go the whole hog, it's a high. "%#@, what an experience, a young female adventurer screams. One boy remarked wryly, "I really felt I lost my #%**@." The Rs.1,000 a jump carnival by Bangalore-based event management company Midas Events has really caught the city's imagination. Assisted by three locals. Australian jump master Philip Lamp is touring the major metros in India in the New Year, then moving on to the remaining state capitals. "People here are by nature very scared," is his ready-to-deliver psycho-analysis of the desi jumper, " and it takes a little extra coaxing to make them jump." He must be pretty good at persuading- he even got a 62 year old man to take the plunge. The company registered 1,200 jumps in 13 days in Bangalore. Crossing that figure in Mumbai might not be tough. Especially when they're amply rewarding bravery. After the first attempt, every subsequent jump costs Rs 250 less. Read: a fifth jump will work out free. And then thre's the Millennium jump offer, for that one person who will take the plunge in 1999 and get back up in 2000. As far as temptations go, it beats plunging necklines wholesale. -Fawzan Husain
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Pallavi
Zhaveri has no fear of heights. After all she lives on the 18th floor of a
high-rise building in south Mumbai. More important, she's here. At the
Andheri Sports Complex, as the lift cage comes to a halt, a gentleman
unlatches one side of the cage and requests her to move to the edge.
Zgaveru, a 39 year old mnother of two, takes one look down, inquires
unemotionally whether everything's all right... then jumps.