A fire broke out in Mumbai this afternoon.
A major fire broke out at a plot near ROLEX Restaurant Junction in Mumbai this afternoon. The flow of traffic at the ROLEX Restaurant Junction is relentless. Cars, motorbikes, bicycles and handcarts etc. creep in on you from all directions. I was working in the area when all of a sudden; I noticed black fumes [...]
On the subject of Cows, here’s one more!
It was a hot summer day in Thanjavur. An overnight train from Madras had brought us there. It must have been a little over 40° Celsius. But overcast skies brought us relief from the otherwise glaring April sunshine. The light suited my photography. I was on a professional assignment for one of my clients based [...]
Offline Farmville
I love farms and farming; not the facebook kind though. I have wanted to spend time in the midst of hardworking farmers and cattle since 10 odd years. I never got going though. Farmers start growing rice in the month of June, that’s when the monsoons set in. And the lush green paddy fields are [...]
HAPPY DIWALI from Purushwadi!
I spent the first four days of this week scouting Purushwadi. Yes, I contemplated the idea of writing a few jokes to follow that opening line but then decided against it. Purushwadi is atop a hill near Ghoti along the Mumbai-Nashik Highway but never mind all of that. The turfs at altitudes higher than Purushwadi [...]
Lalbaugcha Raja in 2011
Lalbaugcha Raja has a lot of history behind it dating back to pre independence times. Most of the major textile mills of Bombay stood in this neighbourhood. Mill workers lived here in tenements or chawls. One fine day, the owners of these mills decided to either shut down operations or move elsewhere as property prices [...]
Goa.
This is from the January of 2010. It’s at the penthouse of Casa Baga. I feel like going to Goa now. It’ll be too hot and humid though. I’ll pass. FIN
The flea market at Anjuna
I am an irritable child. This city doesn’t make things any better. I have been fleeing to the beaches of Goa ever since I was a teenager. But for college, work and my family, I’d never have come back. Anjuna has always been the favourite destination of the flower children. Back in the sixties, if [...]
The Masterclass Gallery
I don’t know how I feel about competitions that are fully or partly judged by the audiences/viewers/community members etc. as opposed to specialists in that respective field. An individual having a wide online/offline social network could pile on the votes irrespective of the quality of his/her work. And timely submissions can accumulate more votes than [...]
Aboard the Chinese Fishing Net at Fort Cochin
“YES – pulling – like that pulling – come! come!” cries the fisherman. It is an invitation to the tourist(s) to hop aboard the Chinese Fishing Net (that) he toils on. And experience the process. Seldom is he turned down. And once on the platform: “This is Chinese technology fishing net – the framework weighs [...]
TEAPOT
TEAPOT on Petercelli Street in Fort Cochin serves fantastic tea, coffee, juices and snacks. I’d frequent it for breakfast and high tea during the week I’d spent there in the last week of March. The Pineapple Juice and Chicken Cheese Omelette are fantastic.
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