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Santa Cruz: Bollywood in Delhi politics.

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The Ladies Finger pointed towards what was wrong with that ill-fated interview that brought Bollywood's priorities into question.

"If you have watched the televised interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by movie star Akshay Kumar you likely already have your favourite moments. If you asked me to pick one it would be the moment in which Modi decided to demonstrate that national artefact – Man Tells Wife Joke. In the matter of form Modi has displayed great exactness in performing this traditional art. Let us examine it closely..."

Read it here.

Meanwhile, here are things that are safe to sell but won't pay as much.

Mangoes

Sarees

Idly, Vada, Sambaar.

1st Gaonthan Road, Santa Cruz

Old type and more from 1st Gaothan Road, Santa Cruz

Just a stone's throw away from the sweat shops of Khotwadi in Santa Cruz are the Gaothan Streets filled with fashion wholesale and retail stores. The area, like most places close to stations are being remade with old buildings coming down and new ones coming up in their place. Above is one such building called Riddhi Siddhi. It should probably be filled up soon with a mall-like space.

The sign is in Gujrati because it is a part of the Gaothan or road leading to it that developed as a market because of its proximity to the railway station.

The Gaothan or Gavthan

Gaothans are areas in Mumbai that are governed by special land usage rules. These are the original villages of Mumbai and as the city expanded and gobbled them up, they needed protection from the city.

In some ways, Santa Cruz west is a fashion capital. It is home to hundreds of everyday fashion brands that is worn across India. It is made here and sent across India from here.

You can read more about the brands of Santa Cruz here.

Links for further reading:

Here is how real estate businesses, home buyers and investors look at Gaothan lands.

All you need to know about Gaothan properties.

"A Gaothan is the portion of the land of the village which is ordinarily used for settlement. Whether a land parcel in a village or town or city is a Gaothan property is determined by the details as laid out in Section 122 of the Maharashtra Land Record Code."

For Navi Mumbai and Thane: Magic Bricks' tips for investing in Gaothan Properties.

The villages of Mumbai as heritage

Matherpackady

Versova gaothan

Mahul Village

Mahim Village

DNA's Ashutosh Shukla and Linah Baliga has this to say

"Once an indelible part of Mumbai’s landscape, many gaothans are now struggling to exist in a city that is aiming for the skies. Ashutosh Shukla & Linah Baliga do a realty check at four prominent gaothans"

The original people who lived in the Gaothans of Mumbai continue to try and retain their identity through social networks.

Here is a network of the East Indian Community. and the Facebook page of the Mobai Panchayat.

Western Railway - Tactile pavings in Mumbai Local Train Station

Tactile Pavings.

Call me blind because I had no clue that we had these tactile pavings on our local train platforms to help the blind navigate our local train stations!

Santa Cruz Station

Republic Day seems to be the preferred day to launch newspapers, channels and websites in India, especially in an election year. One of the news source that was born this Republic Day was Firstpost’s weekly newspaper. It will fight for attention with other magazines and since it’s a weekly newspaper, will have an edge when it comes to price. It is priced at Rs 8.

It’s always a pleasure to read a first or the first few issues of a new newspaper or magazine. It is raw and expresses the intention of the publisher and editor. Firstpost however doesn’t have anything new to say but have used a better and wider pool of contributors to pack a lot of punch into these pages. It would’ve worked in the good old days like how India Today made an impact when it was launched. However, we are now in 2019 and the battle FirstPost has is against our reading and content consuming habits. That is not in favour of a newspaper weekly.

Like Krishna Prasad of Churumuri pointed out in a tweet today with respect to the Rafale story, when the news is printed in an established newspaper (The Hindu) it seems to carry more weight and has a larger impact than on an online news source (Wire) which is probably why they have started this weekly newspaper.

Santa Cruz

Bazaar Street + Ghatkopar Station + Kotwadi + MG Road (Dharavi)

Enemies of Cashless Society.

Who are the people who use older methods of communication, transactions, etc. and don't use smart phones and machines to join the cashless campaign that was kickstarted after the clumsy Demonetisation of 500/1000 notes in November 2016.