mindless mumbai

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

(maternal) grandfather - grandmother park

nana-nani parks dot many parts of the city, and are usually the result of some ngo / citizen group / ALM’s efforts in adding to the open green spaces. because many of them come up on fragments of land that may have originally been dumping grounds / barren fields, these parks are of varying forms. like this one, in 7 bungalows; at 250 long and 8 metres wide, this park is sandwiched by roads on both sides, and was granted permission to be built, only on the condition that the municipal corporation can break it down to expand the road, as and when required. it charges 2 rs as an entry fee that helps maintain the walking track and the greenery. of course there is the debate of parks being open to all sections of society, and whether they should charge any entry fee at all, but that calls for a separate post
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“nana-nani park” translate to grandpa-grandma parks…the maternal ones, to be more precise
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i’m exhausted right now, so apologies if the above description was incoherent. have a construction submission on thursday, a design jury on friday and a thesis jury on saturday. won’t be able to visit any cdpb blogs till the weekend. have fun photo-blogging everybody…
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Monday, February 4, 2008

graphics

we had a little tiff about our urban design / mangalore study trip work’s presentation’s buttons’ graphics and layout today. am a very no-frills-attached person and some didn’t agree with my differences…
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photo of taraporevala aquarium at marine drive. mumbai’s plans to have a world-class aquarium facility seem to have gone down the sea….
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what do you think of the fish on the façade?

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Saturday, January 12, 2008

cinema hall

we went to chandan today, to watch a movie. chandan is amongst the few single-screen cinema halls left in this part of mumbai. everywhere, single-screen halls are being redeveloped into multiplexes with malls, food courts et all. while they do provide more “comforts” and choices, it all comes at a very hefty ticket; and nothing beats chandan’s prices for budgeted college students. also for some reason i feel each single-screen cinema hall has an identity of its own, while the multiplexes simply look like clones of each other, with jazzy forms made of glass, steel and colourful polycarbonate.

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some readers have been enquiring about the term ‘mindless‘ in mindless mumbai. i’ve given my explanation in a brief description of the blog on the RHS frame
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inspiration to add mindless mumbai’s web address to each photo, and to try and disguise it within the imagery comes from not a secret blog by quin[tarantino]

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