Western Express Highway

 

Off Western Express Highway

What do rag picking girls become when they grow up? They become ladies with hooks. 

Off Western Express Highway

Masala from 1978-81 

Off Western Express Highway

Bombay Chinese

Off WE Highway

Access Controlled Public Services

DN Road + WE Highway

Summer

Off Western Express Highway

WE Highway

Western Express Highway - The Great Migration to the cities of India

Nomads in the city 

There is a new book in the city bookshelves that has amazing stories about migrations with a subcontinental perspective. It is by Chinmay Tumbe and it is called India Moving: A History of Migration.

A review of the book. 

Off Western Express Highway

The Repairman 

Will repair anything, I guess. 

WE Express Highway - Art

Aam Artist Gallery 

This is art created most probably created by a contract labourer or someone who lives by the Metro & construction site on WE Highway. J Kumar is the contractor building a part of the metro rail system in Mumbai.

Art created by common people and working class India is the subject of one of my photo books. It is called Aam Artist Gallery and you can buy it here. 

Off WE Highway + Shivdi

Fair & Lovely Lipstick

Western Express Highway

Off Western Express Highway

Seasons

Western Express Highway

Western Express Highway

Off Western Express Highway

Smoke in winter

Off Western Express Highway

Mumbai can be divided into cat areas and dog areas depending on the MCGM's sterilisation of dog policy. Goregaon East is cat territory. 

Off Western Express Highway

Off Western Express Highway

#MigrantGods 

On social media, I was adding images to a hashtag called #SlumgodsOfMumbai when the Ganga Walker aka Siddharth Agarwal suggested that they are in fact migrant gods or deities. 

So true! This two South Indian deities are pasted by a Tamizh lady who sells idlis and vadais in the morning on the Footpath. When her shop is open, the images feel at home. Part time gods. In the afternoon, they are hiding in plain sight among mumbaiya maximum decibels.

Meet Ayyappan of Shabarimala, Kerala in Goregaon.