while dining at firangi dhaba. eat here once, for the sake of the place - film posters, cut outs of film stars, kitschy india-flavoured art and a very loud welcoming-dhol. food is just about ok. and true to its name, the food best caters to a certain segment.
i was at the versova koli seafood a few days ago, to cover it for mumbai mirror online. and this display in front of one of the stalls caught my eye. now krishna isn’t usually associated with the fishing community. what’s even more surprising is this particular form of krishna, with the arm raised up is referred to as shri nathji, and it’s a popular vaishnavaite sect amongst gujaratis, marwaris, kutchis and some sindhis; with the main temple at nathdwara, near udaipur in rajasthan. the worship of shri nathji is quite limited to these groups, and it’s rare to find the icon anywhere other than vaishnav havelis. i wonder what’s the connection between the link between the kolis and shri nathji.
most of us wear too many masks. masks that reveal themselves slowly, over time. where among these many faces does reality hide? i guess the truly lucky ones are those who are devoid of any pretense.
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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but the last couple of posts have been very, what shall i say, they’ve been frames that are quite cut off from their surroundings. could they have been shots from any other city?
anyway, with that in mind, i was going through the photos on the computer; but i still didn’t want a very postcard photo. so, i settled for this one. its flora fountain at fort. more about the fountain here. notice the truck in the background on the right? that’s refilling water into the fountain on a hot summers day.! shot this some time in may last year.
i like such shots where a bit of value-addition to the over-seen-visuals of places / objects is present. i also think that the fragments that i was talking about earlier actually count for the uniqueness of each place. i just don’t know what happens when they’re framed in complete isolation of their surroundings. what do you’ll think? am i making any sense?
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