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Monday, December 31, 2007

all set for 200EIGHT

shop window display for new year at shoppers stop juhu mumbai

here’s wishing a fabulous 2008 for all of us (hey, i’d like to direct some of the good wishes to myself too, hence the us). i’m spending new year’s eve with extended family at extended family’s home; what’s your plan?

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spotted these pretty girls at shoppers stop, juhu

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Sunday, December 30, 2007

all set, and ready to go

ready to go

well, mindless mumbai is here with a revamped look for 2008:
- the template has been tweaked to allow for larger display of photographs on the main page itself
- an option to follow / bookmark / favourite this blog with all the popular websites (del.icio.us, technorati, digg, facebook etc): see RHS bar
- translate the blog in 8 languages: see RHS bar
- a new rating system to rate each individual photograph (example: see the stars at the end of this post) and another to give an overall rating to the blog: see RHS bar
- a new chat box, for anyone to leave a message: see RHS bar
- a new randomly generated header image snippet, clicking on the snippet will take you to the random post: see top most bar
- and obviously, a new photograph every single day

have a great 2008!!!

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photo clicked at chor bazaar, neighbourhood kids riding a parked scooter; credit goes to kalpit ashar for urging me to take this photo

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Saturday, December 29, 2007

city lights

mumbai skyline by night

put this picture up as my desktop background, and on first look people ask me which city is this? guesses pan the world from singapore to new york. only on taking a closer look do people realise its mumbai.

the city’s skyline can be as stunning as that of any metropolis. one just has to probably just dig around a bit more for spectacular sights. mumbai has its own unique character, its about time the powers that be stop harbouring shanghai dreams.

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pic shot at girgaon (yet again!). taken northwards, in the foreground is the inner city area, in the background are the upcoming high rises of central mumbai.

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Friday, December 28, 2007

adaptive public spaces

adaptive public spaces
mumbai is infamous for having very few public spaces. a direct result of this is that people adapt to the existing architecture around them to claim a spot for themselves. this is predominantly seen in case of hawkers on footpaths, the homeless sleeping on dividers, railings being used to dry clothes etc.

this photo is from within a residential society in juhu scheme. the society constructed a metre high wall along its spare gate to prevent water gushing in from the road during the monsoons. this low wall now serves as a seating spot for hawkers, rickshaw drivers and urchins. the gate and the side walls form the perfect backrest, and an adjoining tree provides adequate shade…

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

time for celebration

wedding procession at girgaon mumbai

mindless mumbai is now a part of city daily photo blog , a global photo-blogging community of over 250 photo-bloggers, from all the five continents posting a daily photo of the city that they inhabit. for a complete list of all the participating cities, click the + sign next to the continent, in the menu on the right hand side frame of this blog. cheers!

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pic shot at girgaon. a hindu wedding ceremony, complete with a musical band, a decked up venue and a horse for the baraat (a wedding procession conducted by the groom’s side of the family). more wedding pix coming up this january

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

girgaon.. yet again

girgaon chawl common passage interior mumbai

another one of the chawls in girgaon… i guess i’ll never grow tired of these spaces. even randomly clicked pictures here capture a lot in the frame.
previous girgaon posts here and here
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come to think of it, if there have been just two previous posts about girgaon, then there have been too few… you can expect more in the coming days :)