thoroughfare

another photo from girgaon. this two feet wide thoroughfare connects christian dominated dabul area to the parsi dominated nawrojee lane. comfortable for a single line of people to pass through at a time.

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the words in hindi read: let there be peace, let there be love

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working on the girgaon project for the vivas

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photo id: 7299

truck loads of crap

as if moving houses, shoping and packing for the upcoming trip, and working for the vivas wasn't enough; the attitudes, assumptions, callousness, behaviour, carelessness, and .... of a certain person have been annoying me to no end. and i'm so tired of it.

and the issue, as i see it, is going to drag on... but now i couldn't care less, i've been as understanding as i could be, and as considerate as i should have been; beyond this i'm a scorpion, and i've been forced to sting...
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in the photo: divya; location: juhu joggers park; july 2007

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photo id: 7607

running around...

did a lot of running around today. versova - juhu - cst - mahalakshmi - juhu - versova. and by good chance, the sim card guys are right next to the camera guy, and their building has a magnificent view of the race course. will try and click a photo of the racecourse some time...

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photo id: 10667

surpirse

everyone loves a good surprise, don't you?

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photo id: 0025

so-near, yet-so-far

mindless mumbai recently moved, and now i've got to follow suit. we've got to move out from our current place, to a temporary one for some time. and we've been hunting, and hunting, and hunting some more, for a suitable place. and we've not had much success yet, but have come across the most interesting landlords, existing tenants, flat layouts, flat locations and of-course, quoted prices. hopefully things shall get sorted soon. see related post here.

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this photo is of charles correa's kanchenjunga residential apartment building at peddar road, almost all of it hidden by the tree... much like how it seems to us students, too many barriers for us to be let in and see the building from inside

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photo id: 10739

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note to self: fiasco X 3 (4 bungalows, off yari rd, yari rd)

red shaft

my apartment building has a bright red colour internal service shaft. i don't know who chose the colour, but i quite like it...

been working hard

hiya,
welocome to the new mindless mumbai website. mindless mumbai is a daily photo-blog from mumbai, india. and it's no longer going to continue on blogger; instead, it's got its own domain now:
www.mindlessmumbai.com/blog

some things remain unchanged: a photo a day (well, almost every day!) and a little bit about the photo.

but there are a couple of new features:
- there's an improved way to browse through the archives: by tag words (quite similar to the 'labels' here) and categories (if you're looking for photos with some specific characteristic)
- there's a random option, to view a random photo from the archive, and a mosaic option, to view the photos, sorted yearly in a mosaic format
- also being tested is a map system, which'll point out where in mumbai the photo was taken; along with a superset map, with all the positions of all the photos marked out

special thanks to vachan, partly for the hosting; and more so for finding out, installing and helping out with a lot of options meant specifically for photoblogs.

i've been working on the new site's layout and design for a few days now. bouquets and brickbats, both are equally welcome.

and, a big thanks to all visitors so far; especial thanks to fellow CDPB-loggers for being the inspiration to post daily. hope you'll continue visit us at our new location.
psst: and do update your links / blog-rolls too. thanks!

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note of caution: much as i have worked on the html coding and css stylesheet of this new domain over the past few days, there are some things that i have just not been able to tweak. so don't be too critical if you come across some text / graphics / layout / borders / fonts that aren't too easy on the eye :)
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photo id: 10563

we've moved

so you remember the "we're moving" bit that i was talking about in the earlier post? well, we did move, and by "we" i am referring to mindless mumbai

mindless mumbai is no longer going to continue on blogger; instead, it's got its own domain now:
www.mindlessmumbai.com/blog

some things remain unchanged: a photo a day (well, almost every day!) and a little bit about the photo along with that

and a couple of new features:
- there's an improved way to browse through the archives: by tag words (quite similar to the 'labels' here) and categories (if you're looking for photos with some specific characteristic)
- there's a random option, to view a random photo from the archive, and a mosaic option, to view the photos, sorted yearly in a mosaic format
- also being tested is a map system, which'll point out where in mumbai the photo was taken; along with a superset map, with all the positions of all the photos marked out

special thanks to vachan, partly for the hosting; and more so for finding out, installing and helping out with a lot of options meant specifically for photoblogs.

a big thanks to all visitors so far; especial thanks to fellow CDPB-loggers for being the inspiration to post daily. so, adioa, c ya, farewell, ciao. hope to see you on mindlessmumbai.com soon...
psst: and do update your links / blog-rolls too. thanks!

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note of caution: much as i slogged with the html coding and css stylesheet of the new domain over the past few days, there are some things that i have just not been able to tweak. so don't be too critical if you come across some text / graphics / layout / borders / fonts that aren't too easy on the eye :)
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this photo was taken at the end of the third year study trip. that's ritesh waving everyone in the train good-bye, at borivali station.

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photo id: 3599

update: we did move away. but then we moved back. and we're here to stay.

moving

we're shifting, and it'll be a few days before we are up and running again... will keep this space updated

shivdi (sewree) fort

a lot of geography was being discussed today. is the photo good enough to visit the place?

five on a bike

spotted this family of five on my way home. mom-kid1-dad-kid2-kid3 all on their bike. its not a very safe way to get around, but a lot of families with young kids still do this. the buses are probably too crowded, too slow, or just not very convenient, and the ricks may be too costly, considering all the traffic jams.

the kid in the very front had his head down for all the time that these people were in our view. mom thinks that he's going to have to keep his head down for the entire journey, else he'll block his fathers view of the road. if that's true, then its sad, as well as scary.

marine drive

clicked yesterday evening at marine drive. the two brightly lit buildings are the air india HQ and the oberoi hilton towers

bhaji on the beach

exams got over today. all, but one, were quite ok. i've decided not to think too much about that particular one right now. its over and done with, and i can't do anything till the results are out, which seems eternally away, especially since the vivas will get over only by 13th may.

saloni, saurabh, mohit and me unwound in town after the exams. most others went to some restaurant or for a movie, but we felt like being in the open. walked a good 2.5 kms along marine drive, before reaching girgaon chowpatty (thats mumbai's most famous beach). hogged on a lot of chaat: pani puri, dahi papadi chaat, cheeze pizza and veg grilled sandwich; followed by butta (roasted corn) whilst sitting on the sands. then we headed to the juice centre at haji ali to end the evening with their delicious but way over priced milkshakes...

the photo is from a stall at the beach, from where we ordered the sandwhich and the pizza. in the photo are the ingredients for pav bhaji, as well as the finished dish. on the extreme right of the pan is the bhaji (veggies) which are continuously stirred and rotated, on the left is the mixture of tomatoes, onions, chillies etc, that goes into the bhaji; while the guy on the right is warming the pav (bread) in between these two. each of the three dishes in the front is the bhaji, topped with coriander leaves, and a handful of onions, along with a slice of lemon; and a dollop of butter.

the two cooks had no objection to me clicking the photo, as long as the name of their stall was not clicked. that worked perfectly for me!
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thanks to all the visitors visiting mindless mumbai, for the time period that i've not been able to visit other city daily photo blogs. you'll are the motivation in keeping up with the daily, well almost daily, posting. will be paying you'll a visit soon...

fun - study

these kids were plucking imli (tamarind) (fruits? pods? i dont know the correct word) from the tree. this is in my school campus. looks like so much fun! we on the other hand are busy with exam studies, but we're having our share of fun too. had pizza at pizza casa yesterday, i think it was a -deserved break...

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exams all of next week. won't be logging on to the net till next weekend. wish me luck!
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photo id: 10832

pasta.... just the packets

completely unrelated to anything going on nowdays. this is just a random photo i found in my archive, and i decided to not-think-much before posting it. we've been studying hard in college :) on the other hand, by some chance this may actually not be such a random photo, after all. who wouldn't want a great pasta treat after all the studying.... yummm....

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this photo is a part of this
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photo id: 3875

plucking kairis

we got the watchman to pluck out some kairis (raw mangoes) yesterday from our mango-tree. we had planted the tree over 13 years ago, and it just started bearing fruit last year. we can't wait for the mangoes to ripen on the tree, because somebody or the other from the street usually plucks them out out. the raw mangoes though, make for lip-smacking pickles.
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previous photo of last years' kairis here

versova beach

theme day id=13

i was just about to post another photo, when i looked at the date and realised its THEME DAY. and the theme is WATER. this photo is taken at versova beach, the sunset looks great, especially when 'equalized' on photoshop :)
there are many previous photos at the same beach, just hunt under the label water. no time to do the linking here.
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photo id: 10513
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