in mumbai it was a week of mix baggage a week of diagonally opposite factors creation and destruction pleasure and sorrow ahievements and failures though it was a mix baggage the negative side dominated the week due to very serious nature of the untoward incidents like rising indiscipline in police force which even resulted in policemen killing the boss or the family and himselfbut before turning to that first the good news and believe me it is very very creative students of the industrial design centre of the indian institute of technology iit organised an exhibition of their models of improved designs of different gadgets vehicles etc the visitors were zapped by the creativity of these students who exhibited their 26 projects under the categories product designing and visual communicationsit included a new design of maruti 800 a tractor and even a mobile phone students of visual communications presented animations giving the watchers an experience of being a part of some famous humorous stories written by legendary marathi writer puladeshpande and introduction to our heritage of art and culturewhen mumbai iitians are busy in preparing models of gadets and visuals students of a management institute are busy giving a helping hand straight to united nations to reduce their paperwork nine students of mumbai education trusts management institute have created a software for reducing paperwork its demo was given when the uns ngo committee met here in march and from april 12 these students began working in un for the implementation of the project the project will be completed by june 7and now the bad news after creation and achievements it is turn of destruction and failures everybody saw it on tv live when the security at the mumbai airport was held at ransomas everyone knows r namdeo a cisf jawan posted at airport killed his commandant and took five of his colleagues hostage what became topic of discussion in the media next day was the smile on namdeos face indicating no remorse after his arrest which was clearly visible in the pictures printed in newspapers a marathi newspaper had come out with a theory indicating that namdeos action of killing his boss was related to his love affair in the department his commandent tried to desist his fiancee from getting involved in such an affair this resulted in the incidentin another incident next day a police officer of mumbai police killed his wife son and then himself he was reportedly fed up with the ulcer which was causing him lot of trouble and suffering these incidents had again initiated the discussion of workload on police lack of weekly offs leaves and fixed duty hours etc whether anything positive will come out of it is a big questionfrequent bursting of pipelines supplying water to mumbai causing water shortage in different areas is also becoming a major problem in mumbai three such incidents were reported in just one week many of these water mains are very old laid down by britishers