Lalbag

 

Fair Ground - Lalbag

Dr SS Rao Road

 

Lalbag

Lalbag Market

Lalbag

Layers of Mumbai - Underground

Lalbaug

Layers of Mumbai: A demolition man. 

Lalbag

The famous Lalbagcha Raja - rest of the year. 

Lalbag

Dr BR Ambedkar Road

When Trump came to India in 2020. And Delhi burned because BJP lost the elections and reacted with the only way they know. 

Lalbaug

Old Man 2019

Ganesh Nagar Lane

Lalbaug

Place Branding: The businesses of Lalbaug are very proud of their location. 

Lalbag

The Legend of Kadak Nath

Chivda Galli, Lalbag

Post Lalbag Ka Raja Mela at Chuvda Galli, Lalbag.


The ganesh pandal is now an urban mela.

Lalbag + Juhu

July in Mumbai

Dr SS Rao Road

Correct Food: Correct like your mothers lunch at Gharoba.

On the boundary between Lalbag and Parel on Dr SS Rao Road and Income Tax Office is the  Stri Hitwardhini Audhyogic Sahkari Sanstha's eatery, popularly known as Gharoba. If you are in Mumbai and want to taste food that is just like what is cooked at home, this is where you should go.

On the day I was there, the food was vegetarian but it was correct, the way is should be, kind like Maharashtrian mothers would make, even the amount of salt and the constant complaints of the ladies who ladle out the food. It was fun to watch the burly men who rushed in hungry and traffic angry wait patiently for their turn at the counter, become meek and bend a little and listen to the constant chatter of the woman serving and don't complain when they demand exact change.

Not surprisngly, they deliver food in tiffin boxes to offices in the area. Wish I had known about it when I used to work close by, some years back.

While I was slowly eating my chapatti and bhaaji, the non stop talking of the many women who run the place (the men who are eating are silent) I was wondering how it would've been eating in a Khaanavali that served the mill workers in the last century. The rooms they ate in would've certainly been smaller, the spread on their plates slightly less heavy , the taste of the chapatti or rice or bhakri very different in that age because of the type of grains that were probably used.


The eatery run by an organisation that has many other programmes and a shop next door. More about them here by Jane Borges.


Try it.

Dattaram Khamkar road

Women playing cricket.
Tennis ball cricket.
For fun.
On a saturday afternoon.
At 3.

Happens in Mumbai.

Dr BR Ambedkar Road

Sea of concrete