Posts Tagged ‘Mumbai’

i have been out of sorts. generally. maybe it is the fact that i was shooting with vast expanses of nature, maybe it is that i am tired of waiting; maybe it is that those closest to me are getting on my nerves and vice versa … maybe it is all of that … maybe [...]

normally street kids don’t approach cars with their windows up and the AC on…. it is too much waste of time, they are possibly better off approaching open ricks or cars with their windows down. this girl maybe thought that i would be interested in flowers, or she saw rani in the car and thought [...]

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 [...]

Ficci Frames 2008 began yesterday in Mumbai. This year's theme was sustaining development.
As, usual it was great for the networking. I caught with quite a few people that I had lost touch with. Met some new ones. Bonded with old colleagues. Drank lots of coffee. attended loads of talks where i felt like a school [...]

…. 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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, on a chilly winter’s afternoon. On a Sunday - no less- I overcame severe inertia to visit the Kala Ghoda festival.
The journey was itself adventurous. A fully packed local train with its assortment of characters. Fights between sales people who ply their colourful wares in the compartments, the jostling for space, and the [...]

….. Kala Ghoda Arts Festival is back this year with a whole bunch of events designed to balm the soul. Catch it from the 1st February 2008 till the 9th of February 2008.

As usual, there will be something for everyone at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, 2008 - from workshop for kids, to traditional art [...]

…. both men and women seem to support the idea that women who ‘ask for it’ tend to ‘get it’. Unfortunately, no one seems to be able to define what “it” means and whether “it” means different things to men and women ( it does !)
HT , which broke the story and led with it [...]

17 months & one week ago :

The trial begins …… I dont’ want to see a ritual sacrifice where the judiciary gives the public a sacrificial bali ka bakra……. I would like to see due process leading to justice being done. the victims deserve at least that…. And, we as citizens deserve at [...]