1St Umerkhadi road

 

Babulla Tank Road

‘Mumbai’s riches are in its garbage’ says a dialogue from the show called Sacred Games (I haven’t read the book) which had a gangster who dealt with garbage and dumps and no sign or smell of it anywhere in the series.

It’s true that people who has anything to do with garbage in Mumbai and its economy, from the rag pickers upwards in the business and side businesses, are the most colourful in the city. This photo shows a very interesting side of that economy and that’s their love and relationship with dogs and animals.

Next to JJ hospital and on the lane that leads to the big Imambara Masjid is one of the largest workspace for garbage collection and related work of that ward (B ward). The employees of the BMC and people who work with them have a gang of dogs that they take care of and are friends and family of the people who love there. These are two of the members of their lair and please note the Nawazuddin/ganesh gairone Rooster of the place screaming ^|>|$~${*] at his ...

Balu Changu Patel Road

Umerkhadi

Umarkhadi

Imamwadi Road

Walls of Mumbai Series: All the right words.

See the Walls of Mumbai Series here.

Imamwadi Road

Work Space Mumbai Series: Roadside watch repairer.

Navroji Hill Road No 4, Umerkhadi

Work Space Mumbai: Street-side Tambola (Bingo/Housie)

You've seen hijras clapping at traffic lights, outside shops, flagging down vehicles on unlit stretches of highways, or outside the huts that lined Tulsi Pipe Road before BMC backed by people with paintbrushes drove them away to places that's out of car's reach. But the much maligned hijras also do other things to make ends meet. Like this enterprising hijra (in blue and as well-dressed as the women around) from Umerkhadi, close to Sandhurst Station who was holding a Tambola session on the pavement. And definitely more participation than the show named Bingo! that Abhishek Bachchan hosted.

Work Space Mumbai Series.