Photos from Bombay, Mumbai INDIA

Bombay Dreams.

Monday, January 03, 2005

Dadabhai Naovroji beckons silently to the traffic at Fountain. A past professor of Elphinstone college (behind the white building).
Churchgate is not a gate but a railway station. Half of Bombay workers and their lunches pass throught this station every working day.
Terapods are Tetrahedral Rocks on the shores of Mumbai, to protect Marine Drive from the monsoon waves of the angry Arabian sea.
Lovers in the summer shadow of time at Marine Drive. [ She's my dreamin' tree, Together in this brief eternity, Summer days, She's all things to behold, Like love in a drunken sea. - lyrics from Tim McGraw ].
Requiem (Missa pro defunctis) for a wrecked Mercedes on Chowpatty.
Kamala Nehru Park (Hanging Gardens) in Walkeshwar (near Napeansea Road/Little Gibbs Rd (home of Cathedral Infant School)), the silent home of a holy man is marked with a crimson cloth.
In 1980 a car painter pointed out that the Almas building tilts at 10 degrees from the vertical in Agripada. By 2000 the building went too far.
Railway colony somewhere on WR line, see the drainage pipes outside the building.
In Matunga, the hand written sign in red implores the reader "Lets go to Calcutta", for some kind of political rally. Kolkota is the Intellectual capital of India, where ancient Art and Bengali Literature is a middle class household virtue. Though, I am sure the slogan was not written by some Artist.
Ficus Hispida is the latin name of wild fig trees that grow along the WR train line of Mumbai, the figs are eaten by Bats at night.
Man with Umbrella outside TC (Ticket Collectors) booth on Dadar CR platform. The school boy in blue is making a call from the yellow PCO for 50p (or 1Rs).
Busybee's column in Midday and Afternoon is read by sundry at Dadar station while they look for a change from WR to CR.
Luggage bearers at Dadar Station
Men with buckets waiting for water by the Mumbai railway line. The lady in blue wants to go to the railway colony next to the railway colony.
Shortcut through thrash at -- Mulund, Thane, Kalva, Mumbra, Diwa, Dombivli, Thakurli, Kalyan?
Train and Man at -- VT (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus), Masjid Bunder, Sandhurst Road, Dockyard Road, Reay Road, Cotton Green, Sewri, Wadala Road.
Banana tree by the railway line at -- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Masjid, Sandhurst Road, Byculla, Chinchpokli, Currey Road, Parel, Dadar, Matunga , Sion, Kurla, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar, Vikhroli, Kanjurmarg, Bhandup, Mulund,Thane?
Shy boy by the railway colony at -- Churchgate, Marine Lines, Charni Road,Grant Road, Mumbai Central, Mahalaxmi, Lower Parel, Elphinstone Road, Dadar, Matunga Road, Mahim, Bandra, Khar Road, Santacruz, Vile Parle, Andheri, Jogeshwari, Goregaon, Malad, Kandivali, Borivali, Dahisar.
Boy with a can of water in Mumbai.