mindless mumbai

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.

it’s theme day at city daily photo blog, and ‘books’ are the way to go for november. what you see in the photo isn’t a book though, but rather the pages that are going to make up one. ‘reflections’ is the annual publication at krvia, and this year it focuses on housing. we’ve been working on this all through october, and it’s almost ready.

178 other cities are participating in this theme day, and their posts can be browsed through here

mindless mumbai wishes all its readers a joyous and peaceful year ahead. may all your adpirations be attained, and may we all be more truer to each other and to ourselves. peace.

the sky had a very sun-set-ty feel to it today, with all warm shades of oranges and browns. this is from the balcony. the twi strong lines that cut across the photo are of the bamboo scaffolding.

i wish i had better words to go along with the pic, but im so very tired. ‘nite.

today is rakhi / raksha bandhan. for those who didn’t get the last three words, here are a few links about the festival: a, b and c. (the links btw, are the first ones that google threw up, i have no idea about the content on those pages.) as with most of the festivals that we celebrate, there are many adaptations, permutations, explanations etc with this one too. conventionally, the ‘ritual’ involves a sister tying a thread on to her brother’s hand (raksha - protection; bandhan - bond), it’s supposed to symbolise the sister praying for the brother’s well being, and the brother in turn ‘protecting’ his sister. speaking of adaptations, one part of my family has a tradition of daughter’s tying rakhis to their father

what it boils down to for us, is to spend a few hours with the cousins, whom we other wise rarely meet; get a couple of rakhis, while hoping that none of them are outlandish (the simpler ones with just a few beads, and a monochrome red colour thread are way nicer!), have a hearty breakfast and get going with the day.

and, havelis deck up the lord, with rakhis on his hand too. btw, i didn’t post yesterday, but what i want to do the next independence day is to borrow some one’s camera phone, and click a photo in the haveli at juhu. the gods wear the indian flag colours on independence day!

everyone loves a good surprise, don’t you?

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