T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, is the most consequential and representative poem of the twentieth century. It is the most convincing presentment of social aimlessness, emotional and spiritual paralysis, decay, frustration, and disillusionment after the First World War. Eliot uses the phrase ‘The waste Land’ to convey the ideas of emotional and spiritual sterility and barrenness. The focus of my Paper is to compare the above attributes with present city, Mumbai. This city of dreams has many similarities with the modern London city of Eliot’s wasteland. It is associated with all contaminations like corruption, black money, prostitution, rootlessness, commercialization of life, lack of religion, lack of human relationships, mental tension and politics. I have tried to track down the problems of present Mumbai city and have correlated them with the city of modern London.

Keywords: Aimlessness, Spiritual Paralysis, Contemporary, Rootlessness, Attributes.