Showing posts with label Vile Parle (E). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vile Parle (E). Show all posts
Vile Parle Station - Youth Time Bomb
Youth Time Bomb
(Photographing the demographic dividend)
Next time you pass by Vile Parle, look out for the number of students who get in and off the trains. The education hub of Mumbai.It's election season and I would like to draw your attention to this India Spend article that has numbers. It says, Why Masses of Jobless Youth May Reduce The BJP In UP. The headline and story exist because of the election but the numbers are about the long term reality that we have been experiencing. Here is something that points to the real problem which states have addressed: Education.
"There is a “mismatch in the demand and supply of education and skills” that translates into unemployment, said a 2017 International Labour Organisation report. Though there is a shortage of skilled labour, workers are often not trained in different skills primarily due to lack of education and awareness about opportunities. The high rate of unemployment among educated youth, said the report, was a “matter of concern”."
India Spend also asks: Less than 5% of India’s workforce is formally skilled, compared to China’s 20%, South Korea’s 96%, Japan’s 80%, Germany’s 75%, United Kingdom’s 68% and the United States’s 52%, according to the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship’s annual report for 2015-16. Why is India lagging so far behind?
The answer is here.
Tejpal Road
Correct Food Series: Cutting Chai at Kaalu's Stall, Vile Parle.
How can you make cutting chai and the experience of drinking Mumbai's most popular beverage even better? All you have to do is pause and have a cutting chai at Kaalu Mama's Tapri on the Tejpal Road running parallel to the railway line on Vile Parle (E) like the auto drivers of the station, down the road.
It was the line of drinking water pots where autorickshaw drivers who operate from outside the station were stopping and saying hello to the man making chai that alerted me to the place. Kaalu appeared to be a busy but cheerful man who seemed to have many years of experience.
One sip of the chai and I discovered what was different. It wasn't anything new but the use of a coal and coconut shell powered stove instead of the usual kerosene stove that gave the chai a special taste.
Maybe other make it this way too but this one was truly rich, the flavour of smoke was just right and I liked it enough to talk about it to you.
Vile Parle (E)
Work Space Mumbai Series: Autorickshaw Meter Repairwalla.
The taxiwallas have no problems using electronic meters. All the new taxis in town come with one. Their meters also seem to run at a lower speed than the autorikshawallas who continue to use mechanical meters. But that depends on the autowalla who is piloting you.
There's a system in place to calibrate and repair the meters that autowallas use. They need a permission from the RTO to open it up and there are authorised mechanics to do the job. These pictures are from one such establishment in Vile Parle where I had gone along with another Mumbai explorer Matt Daniels. Thank you, Matt!
They are touchy about their meters.
Vile Parle (E)
भरत, भरत, भरत आणि परत जाधव - 2
Punha Sahi Re Sahi is a hit Marathi play. It stars Bharat Jadhav in 4 roles (Story details here in the Time Out Behind the Scene Special).
But it's not just about Bharat Jadhav. Here are a few of the people who make him go x 4. Here's the list being announced to the audience.
Hero Hiralal of Mulund!
And the Nataraja's statue that's the fixed feature at all places where art is performed in Mumbai.
Vile Parle (E)
भरत, भरत, भरत आणि परत जाधव
Punha Sahi Re Sahi is a hit Marathi play. It stars Bharat Jadhav in 4 roles (Story details here in the Time Out Behind the Scene Special). The set is designed to make the 4 versions of Bharat Jadhav to play with the minds of the viewers. It's a specially erected set with a lots of exits, windows that actors can leap in through.
The Green Room steps on-stage!
The actors also have to change many times during the show. So the set occupies only half the stage, leaving enough area for the actors to move around.
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