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Books Travellers Read in Mumbai Locals – Part IV
Blog: Windy Skies - 10 December 2011
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Prem Utsav 2011 - Munshi Premchand Theatre Festival at Sathaye College
Blog: Windy Skies - 27 July 2011
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Bollywood posters
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 25 November 2010
If you enjoy exploring the Bazaars in India, there is an antique market in Bombay with shops that sell posters from Bollywood movies. This can be an exciting way to spend an afternoon in Bombay. ‘Bollywood Bazaar’ is the name of a shop on Mutton street at Chor Bazaar in Mumbai that sells Bollywood posters and other Film memorablia from Hindi films. It has been a shop in this antique market since the last 65 years. It was in the ‘80’s that Shahid Mansoori first began to keep his own personal collection of film memorablia in his father’s shop here.
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a Street corner in Mumbai
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 28 October 2010
The corner junction where Shaikh Memon street meets the Lohar Chawl lane in Mumbai is a stage setting for a play that happens here every day of the week. The play is enacted by actors who are street vendors. They walk from one end of the loosely defined and no-shape corner to another and then back again. They sell goods for real. You can buy a plastic tablecloth, a dancing doll, clips for your clothesline or a stuffed toy for your child.
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Fish market Mumbai
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 28 April 2010
“Go to Sassoon Dock at break of day, and there before you are the two unchanging forces of Bombay – commerce and the sea – in jostling, clangorous, Technicolor profusion.” It is these words from Pico Iyer's essay on Bombay, in his book ‘Tropical Classical’ that keep coming back to me. I know that I have to go to Sassoon Docks someday. When I finally do, I wonder why inspite of growing up in Bombay, it has taken me so many years to come here.
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Bazaar Tour 2 : Antiques Mumbai
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 23 March 2010
In India, when you travel to small towns, many traditional houses have antique furniture, brass items, paintings and artefacts that would fetch a high price at an antique market. These are family heirlooms and seem most appropriate within the houses where they belong. Often, a conversation with an older member of the family brings out a story of the wooden chest which goes back to three generations or more. Here, the number of years matter less and the number of generations matter so much more.
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Bazaar Tour 1 : Dadar Flower market, Mumbai
Blog: Indian Bazaars - 11 March 2010
This is the first part of a series on Bazaar Tours in India - some Bazaars that you may want to explore on your own. I relate here how it was for us to visit a bazaar in Mumbai.
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Lady in Southern India
Blog: A Lady in London - 7 November 2009
Last month I took a whirlwind trip through northern India. I saw the sights in Delhi, visited the Taj Mahal at sunrise, explored Rajasthan, and went searching for tigers in Ranthambore National Park. It was an amazing experience, except for one thing: I only got to see a tiny part of the vast, diverse country that is India.
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Travelling across India on a ricksha - these guys did it!
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 16 September 2009
Ever joked about buying an auto ricksha and making your way around India driving on your own? Well it's no joke anymore.
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What to do in Mumbai? 10 cool do's
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 18 August 2009
Mumbai is often seen as a place to be deserted as soon as possible, but that's not entirely fair. Here's what I would do if I had four days on my hands in Mumbai.
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12 books to read in India
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 15 August 2009
1. White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga.What: Corrupt, psychotic and wonderfully entertaining Bangalore businessman with a murderous past in Delhi writes nightly letters to the Chinese prime minister.For whom: People who believe India is a country of ancient wisdom and spirituality.
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