Bhuleshwar Road

 

An East India Company Sepoy Dwarapalaka.

Sri Laxmi Narayan Temple, Bhuleshwar Road. 

Bhuleshwar + Ghadial Gally

 

Panjrapol

 

Bhuleshwar

 

Bhuleshwar

 

CP Tank

A building called Hira Baug at CP Tank has Mumbai's oldest surviving Hindi book shop - Hindi Granth Karyalay

Bhuleshwar + Metro

Summer Heat

Bhuleshwar Road + Choitram Gidwani Marg

Panchayatwadi

Mitha Bol - A linguistic map of Mumbai:  Panchayat Wadi, a Bengali street.

Tucked away in the super congested Bhuleshwar marlet area is a small street where Bengali and the dialects of the Eastern Gangetic plains is mostly spoken. These are a few images from there. 

This is the entrance to the galli with a signboard in Gujarati. The lane peeps on to the busy market street opposite the Ram Mandir in Panjrapole famous for its goods and the placement is perfect. The best time to visit this market is before or during Navratri. It is the best market in Mumbai when it comes to goodies related to Navratri celebrations. 

Khattar Galli

Always on. 

Footpath gambling in Mumbai. 

Null Bazaar + Bhuleshwar + Chira Bazaar + Princess Street + JSS Road

A Quiet Diwali in Mumbai. 

Diwali or deepavali. It's more than fire crackers and sweets, sales or games of taash. The festival of lights is a time for change, new coat of paint, the change of season and smiles that are sweeter than sweets your neighbours give you.

Flower sellers 

Shops in the market, where as you can see, men draw the rangolis.

When women draw rangoli, they look different.

Diwali is also the time, shops get new signboards. It is also considered the best time to start a new business.

That's work for the surviving signboard painters in the city.

Pushcarts, the lifeline of the traders in the crowded bazaars of the city get a fresh coat of paint every year and that day of the year is Diwali. 

Diwali is also the time for the biggest movie releases of the year. Here's a queue outside one of the surviving single screen movie halls in town.  The Moti Talkies, Girgoan. 

Diwali is the time for new clothes. And here's a very popular footpath sale. (above)

Diwali bonus or baksheesh is an old tradition. Everyone gets it and so do Hijras. This is a hijra's signature marking a shop from where the baksheesh has been collected. 

Mumbai is also the city where the lottery trade is big. And there's nothing bigger than the the Diwali Bumper prize.

And yes, there are people are fireworks and  those who are 'fed up' of sweets at home can have a happy diwali here: