Tag Archives: bombay

From Ambedkar statue take right, aur yahan se left

December 18, 2009 – 12:28 pm

When I lived in Mumbai, it took me months to figure out how to navigate the city. Rickshaws, trains, and taxis were easy enough — it was how to communicate where I wanted to go that was the problem. People didn’t pay attention to addresses – they knew building names. They didn’t say “the intersection [...]

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Kanye discovers India

March 7, 2008 – 1:20 pm

Fittingly, the same week that TimeOut Mumbai covers the rise of hip hop in Bombay, Kanye West discovers one of Bombay’s newest clubs. Let me be the first to say: Kanye at MMRDA in six months. Big ups to Blue Frog architect Kapil Gupta of Serie

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Bombay expats wiki

March 7, 2008 – 9:25 am

New project! This is a community resource for all expats in Bombay — a wiki to gather the best information and recommendations from the members of the Bombay Expats Yahoo Group.

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Envisioning the future of Bombay’s slums

March 4, 2008 – 3:31 pm

Urban Typhoon is a participatory urban planning workshop on the future of the Koliwada region of Dharavi, Mumbai’s staggeringly large and impossibly dense million-resident slum. The objective is to produce creative alternatives for the future of a neighborhood threatened by a redevelopment plan of the government as well as a multimedia testimony to the unique [...]

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