Posts Tagged ‘Maharashtra’

March 12th 1993. A time when Mumbai was still Bombay. Lokhandwalla was a set of buildings in progress, where gangs regularly went to war. Where In Orbit & Hypercity Malad were rubbish dumps, when the expressway didn’t exist, when Asiatic and Akbarally’s were great malls and when Phoenix was a shut down mill !
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The Facebook forwards are dying out. So are the SMS’s. Most people have either moved on with their lives, or decided to act.  And, in the third week it is pleasently surprised to see how many people have actually decided to donate time and energy to ‘do something’.
whether that ’something’ is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ is [...]

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This morning I was in class teaching Media Studies. We were looking at different aspects of media — especially the ‘filtering aspect’. Dennis McQuail – media theorist – defines this as
…selecting out parts of experience for special attention and closing off other aspects of experience, whether deliberately and systematically or not…
And, then i got [...]

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About a year ago we decided not to buy any food or toiletries at the mall.
My folks were fairly clear that the reason to stop was
a) the quality – especially on dal and rice, my mom kept cribbing.
b) the cost – while the goods themselves may have been cheaper, the tendency to buy [...]

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And How… it is blazing hot in Mumbai, the hills look brown and gold with heat and the flowers are blooming

Aah for a bout of Megh Malhar now….. 

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Since the new year, I haven't managed to take a weekend off… Lonavala seems like such a long time ago, that most of my memories are in black and white ….
Here is the path near my house leading to the hills… 

Maybe, next weekend…… 

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…. says Uddhav Thackeray – to counter his more charismatic cousin, undoing the last year of the Shiv Sena trying to reach out to ‘other’ communities.
“Outsiders coming to Mumbai hoping to work in the airport project would be packed off and sent back in a cargo plane,”
cargo planes are traditionally used to transport body [...]

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In the last week, a simmering problem just boiled over. There has been violence against the “North Indians”. And, I am surprised that people are surprised. I am appalled. I am horrified. But, I am not surprised. Infact I expected it to happen rather earlier.
In the last 13 years that I have been back [...]

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There are tons of things to do in and around the house in Lonavala and now that the house is more or less settled, I have begun exploring around…..
Winters in the Western Ghats – means hues of brown and green. Stark, Majestic and imposing. The green usually makes way for Golden, leaving the hills [...]

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When we got the house a year ago… the plan was for a garden. Not just a garden with flowering plants, but also fruits, veggies and spices….. mom and dad joked about growing grass – as their retirement plan…… at least I think it was a joke….
Nangargaon in Lonavala is normally beautiful….. but, come winter [...]

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