Showing posts with label Aarey Milk Colony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aarey Milk Colony. Show all posts
Goregaon Skyline
Expanding city
This photograph is from one of the towers next to Oberoi Mall. The Oberoi family has made a small section of Goregaon, their own now.
One of my friends from college grew up here in the late 70s and 80s before he moved to Bangalore in 1991. At that time, this place next to the Oberoi Mall was colony or quarters of a pharmaceutical company. It was surrounded with trees and semi-forested. It was an extension of the forest to the east.
View from the high rise in the above photographs.
The reason the homes that are high up are prized is because of the greenery to the east that still exists. It is something all politicians are eyeing to fill their family treasure chests.
Aarey Road
Right wing nutritional supplement and cow protein in Mumbai
It's fascinating to observe religious people and their food habits. Also, it is not just religious people, it's people with strong beliefs and especially when it comes to food across cultures. Today. among all the protein sources available in India, milk and milk products gets all the attention and led by thinking and amplification of the same by conservative communities from the the North Western part of India.Mumbai's dairy farm
Aarey colony was created during a period when many people were trying to find ways to harvest milk protein for a nation trying to get out of poverty and malnutrition and it was many decades back. Today, dairy is big business in India and a popular source of protein. It was the parallel experiment in Gujarat by Amul that tried the co-operative method of dairy distribution that is well known. The Aarey experiment seems like it was a way to get the dairy farming business in the city, out of the Island city, and move it to what is now Aarey Milk Colony.
I found this Aarey shop on Aarey Road selling milk and milk products and next to it was international supplements that may also contain concentrated protein from meat that is against the values of the current Hindutva ideology government of Maharashtra and Delhi.
The price of milk protein
Coming back to milk, the world price of milk is currently very low and skewed because of subsidies in Europe and developing countries. Even in India, subsidies and doles by state governments like Karnataka has led to a skewed milk prices (for the producers). The excess supply and stock of milk has an after effect on the streets of Mumbai and the shops. There are many new brands, all trying to push processed milk products and the brands are from across India. All you have to do is look at the curd aisle in your local super market or the brand being pushed in your local kirana store.
However, milk seems to rule and retails at 45 rupees a litre. approximately.
If you are interested in reading more about the India and world dairy market trends, here are a few links:
Too much milk in Europe - DW Documentary
Why dairy is in crisis by Harish Damodaran.
The not so white revolution
Marine Drive
Underwater Scream
Groups trying to raise awareness about natural wealth of Mumbai - the forests, wetlands, coast, etc. came together on Marine Drive on 30th March 2019 ahead of the elections to make their voices heard.
They formed a human chain.
Truth: Mumbaikars don't care about the environment
The election model code of conduct is in force and truth be told, Mumbaikars don't really care about the environment. We strictly see the place as something to use commercially. Also, anyone talking for the environment is seen as against the government in power and the politicians, builders have the support of the people of Mumbai.
When the water in the their taps run dry or when aftereffects of rampant ecological destruction troubles them, we people of Mumbai will find someone else to blame except our own ignorance.
Immigrants, neighbouring country, neighbour, the poor, etc. etc.
Also Bharat Mata Ki Jai.
So why are you silent?
Maybe it is because we all believe that we belong elsewhere. We all vote with our feet.But here are a few things some people had to say.
Aarey Milk Colony
Brands of Mumbai Series: Energee
A recommended stop if you are crossing Aarey Milk Colony - to sip Energee Flavoured Milk.
Aarey Milk Colony + Western Express Highway
Aarey's Energee drink has a new flavour - Golden Sunrise.
Mumbai's brief winter makes the Aarey Milk Colony, that still sticks into the heart of the growing metropolis, look beautiful. That fog is partly fuelled by smoke from the dairy farms inside Colony.
Meanwhile, we are creeping in, one building at a time, into this oasis.
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