Posts by: Divya Sharda
How do we find place for everything in Mumbai? Where is the space? It’s as if we carve out spaces as and when we need it and then just hide them again…
Ganpati bappa just went back home – but has anyone gone back to Lalbaug and seen where he was sitting? You won’t be able to believe how small the gallis are and how easily he just made space for 10 days in that corner and in our hearts.
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Most of the Mumbaikars are from outside the city – or so we have always heard. In any case, how many ever they might be, all of them do have a customary visit back home once (or if lucky twice) a year. I had the opportunity to go back to my hometown -Mumbai (now that I have shifted to Bangalore since Feb this year).
I never called Mumbai my hometown, there never was a need …
I just read in the newspaper a few days ago how Malls are trying to woo customers by opening up early and shutting late. Specially in Mumbai. The article mentioned that they are trying to attract the attention of fitness freaks and joggers in the city! It took a second for it to sink in. So one would get up early and go and jog inside a mall, is it? God …
Ganpatiji is Mumbai’s favourite God.
Imagine this scenario – you are coming back from work, drained out and stuck in the jam of jams and suddenly you notice the pot-bellied God sitting in the car next to you or on a rekdi, all saja-dhaja, on his way to someone’s home. The heart just melts. Suddenly, everything else is in the background and he grabs all your attention. Haina?
Well, he grabs the attention of Mumbai as a city! The newspapers, …
It finally poured in Bangalore. I hear the clouds are doing their bit in Delhi and Mumbai as well. Sabko badhai ho!
My friends visited me from Mumbai this week and I felt that they just got some rain along. But what they also got were memories of the city I lived in for 28 years. My city – Mumbai. We were talking about how we never ‘got out’ that often like typical teenagers…or bunked class in college. What a …
So I was at one of the posh-est areas in Bangalore yesterday, and I took a good half an hour walk around in the streets randomly. Looking at the beautiful bunglows and small pretty streets, I was remembering the quaint little streets behind Colaba Causeway and the Taj, with trees around and a certain silence which can be experienced only in certain areas of South Mumbai. (may be a few streets in Bandra too)
But it made me think of …
I have found what every woman hopes to find. A good, clean parlour near her house, with a dedicated staff that remembers her by name and smile every time they see her, AND the services don’t cost the world
In Mumbai, I always yearned for one and never found it. There was always something or the other missing. And yes, I could never get an ‘appointment’! Always stuck with the over-crowded and over-priced ones, I kept searching for the ‘one’.
But …
Whenever my relatives from Delhi came for a visit to Mumbai – they had two things on the top of their ‘to do’ lists – visit a sea-front and spot a celebrity.
A few years ago, it used to be Juhu beach, the one-stop shop for all ‘foreigners’ to Mumbai. See the sea, eat bhutta, wet feet, buy balloons, eat bhelpuri aur ho gaya picnic! A few years before this – we used to go for a dip into the …
Everyone knows the famous line: Itna Paisa mein Itna-ich milega! An animated bai mouthed this in a Channel [v] promotion and the line caught on. Especially in Mumbai, people love quoting it. But what I observed was that the ‘bai’ in Mumbai is such a popular icon. Everyone recognizes her, everyone interacts with one at home and bears with her impertinence too.
In a ‘working city’ with working mothers, wives and daughters, it is only fair that we have some …
Auto rickshaws in Mumbai have various nick-names (mostly given out of spite, not love). Cockroaches, I think is quite suitable. They dive into any space and squeeze their way around. Yet they clearly the most convenient way to get around for people. Except, during monsoons and when they go on strike and when they refuse to take you where you want to go AND when they use faulty meters to rob you of your hard-earned money.
Other than that, very …