mindless mumbai

Thursday, December 4, 2008

rallying for change

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at the rally at gateway of india - regal cinema. whether you walked, held a placard, sloganeered or lit a candle, your very presence counted.

i considered using some other image for the post - the rows of lit up candles are specially photogenic; but this photo better represents the mood today.

more photos and a couple of short videos (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) on facebook.

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

an ad being fixed on a bus-stop along juhu-versova link road. the new bus-stops have a one-fix-for-all-situations approach, and are plonked everywhere, irrespective of foothpath size and passenger-traffic. i prefer the old concrete bus stops over these new shiny ones

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Monday, August 18, 2008

what friends are for

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at the queer azadi march, mumbai’s first GLBT pride march. article coming up soon.

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Friday, May 9, 2008

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the photo says it all . . .

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Monday, March 31, 2008

chabi-wallah

at 4-bungalows junction while on way to college. thats a sign for a key maker / duplicater below which these guys were hanging around. im thinking of introducing a new label that would be called: “wallah”. there are already photos of a bhaji-wallah, mewad ice-cream wallah, newspaper-wallah, rickshaw-wallahs and even a band wallah. what do you’ll think?
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for the non-hindi speaking browser: wallah is a sort of suffix added to any occupation. so a guy selling flowers would become phool-wallah (where phool = flowers), and a lot our lives revolves around many of these wallahs, right from the dhoodh-wallah (milk man) in the mornings to istri-wallah (the guys who irons clothes) in the evening.

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chabi = key
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

9819511886 - cant think of a better title

at juhu versova link road. half of yari road seems to be house hunting. and good old laid back yari road is on its way to become high rise, overtly conscious, loud-music-loving lokhandwala
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photo id: 10753
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posting after a week. just got done with a major jury, which for the record was a no-jury. exams from next week, got to open books this week…. sighs….