Jumma Cricket.
It's Friday and the boys who study in the madrasas have the day off.
Panjrapol
Villages in Mumbai Series: Hen coop in Panjrapol, Deonar.
This hen coop is in a little slum where the residents rear chicken. It's rare to find such a hen coop in this space starved city.
Vashi Bridge
Navi Mumbai's voyage to Mars
While ISRO prepares to launch India’s maiden Mars Mission (nicknamed Mangalyaan or Mars craft), a social network of padayatris from Kopri Gaon, Navi Mumbai walk on their mission to Siddhivinayak Temple in the Island City to observe the Angarika (in Sanskrit - the one who is red as hot coal) or Mars Chaturti or the fourth day of the waning moon).
Today is supposed to be auspicious for Hindus of Mumbai who can no longer see stars, planets or even the moon in the skies but seem to live a rigorous religious life based on what happens above the smog and big city light pollution. You can also use the night sky app which is pretty brilliant to observe what is hidden above the smoggy sky. But I think an app that is also an interesting calendar of interesting stellar and planetary movements and coincidences like the Indian astrological almanacs will sell too.
Eastern Freeway
Autumn in Mumbai
Waiting for burial
like an autumn leaf
in a city without winter
just long grey monsoons
two summers
invisible salt in the breeze
water, elements and slow rust
Deonar
Winter collection for truckers.
Sameerullah is selling warm clothes and coats to the truckers and shepherds who are here from Gujarat and Rajasthan with goats for the Bakrid season. He says that winter is coming and new warm clothes don't come cheap. They cost a few thousand rupees showing me one of the coats her has for sale. He sells the second hand warm clothes for a few hundred rupees or less, each.
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Deonar
Traffic jam.
Bakrid is here and so are shepherds from the western parts of India to probably the most profitable market for them, this time of the year.
Sector 17, Vashi
In Navi Mumbai, a local circulating library called Pai Friends shut its doors last month. We have a shop that sells pipes in its place.
When you reach the end of a book you move on and open a new one.When you reach the end of a habit we pick up new ones. But reading will survive. Latest data indicate that people who move on to digital books read more than they used to when they bought or borrowed books.
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Western Express Highway
Car culture in Mumbai.
A driver rests in the parking lot at the Bombay Exhibition Centre. The few trees here can make a big difference.
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Juinagar / Juigaon
Navi Mumbai has one thing Mumbai doesn't have. Decently maintained parks for all.
Mumbai Gaon: Vikhroli
Christ Mandir or temple
Mumbai Gaon Series: Vikhroli Village.
Tucked between the Eastern Express Highway and Godrej/CR line is a little East Indian village of Vikhroli. It's one of the hundred odd villages that dot Great Mumbai.
Here is a little cycle repairing shop that I chanced upon which I shot a few images of for my friend Cycling Sultan (Instagram @cyclingsultan). One of the little things that make up a village in Mumbai I guess.
Mithi River, BKC
Recycle and it will fly. Mumbai's car junkyard functions from the banks of the river Mithi near BKC.
Deonar
The shepherds in Mumbai.
Truckloads of goats are in town along with their shepherds today to supply us with proteins from the dry lands of North Gujarat (Mostly GJ 9 - Himmatnagar registration) and Rajasthan (really colourful trucks). The goats in tiered lorries with excellent colours are accompanied by shepherds who seem to have the wide eyed look of tourists in a big city. I hope they get to see more of the city that the Deonar slaughterhouse.
And yes, the visitors from Gujarat will be weighed too but not by the Diamond merchants.
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