Showing posts with label girgaon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label girgaon. Show all posts

Monday, May 27, 2019

Monochrome mania

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Waiting in his summer uniform, for his team to arrive, to play cricket in Girgaon.

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Monday, August 21, 2017

Monochrome mania


Getting to work, in Girgaon.

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Monday, August 7, 2017

Monochrome mania


Propped up balconies in a building in Girgaon.

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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Well grounded


A street side shop at ground level in Girgaon.

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Monday, July 31, 2017

Monochrome mania


Girgaon in transition from Bombay to Mumbai.

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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Tea time


Tea time at the chai tapri outside Banaji Ateshbehram (Parsi Fire temple) on Maharshi Karve Road, Girgaon.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

When Mumbai was Bombay


This is how buildings were decades back when Mumbai was Bombay.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Chapel


A pretty chapel at the entrance of Khotachi wadi, Charni Road.

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Sunday, July 9, 2017

Tapri chai


In Mumbai a 'Tapri' is a shanty tea shop strategically located at the street corner, near college campuses, offices or basically near any establishment that will provide customers for brewed tea or chai. The above was at a street corner in Girgaon.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Cannons as bollards


These are Cannons inverted and buried to act as bollards or markers between Zaoba wadi and  Navi wadi in Girgaon. But the local story is that they symbolise the end of strife and beginning of peace.


Friday, June 16, 2017

Gordhandas in Girgaon


A beautiful old building against a cloudy sky in Girgaon.

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Spiral staircase


In the olden days domestic help were supposed to use this staircase and enter homes through the back door. This is one of the surviving relics of that period in Chira Bazaar, Girgaon.