Bombay11 Bombay Photos

Sunrise at the race course

2008-09-12T18:45:00.000-07:00

Crow welcomes the sunrise at the race course.

2007-12-20T21:18:00.000-08:00

Bend your branches down along the ground and cover me
When the shadows fall, shade the birds from cold and sorrow.

Minerva Cinema

2007-11-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

Novelty Cinema

2007-11-03T06:26:00.000-07:00

Mahalaxmi Station

2007-11-03T06:23:00.000-07:00

Maratha Mandir

2007-11-03T06:21:00.000-07:00

City Centre Mall

2007-11-03T06:20:00.000-07:00

Barber

2007-11-03T06:19:00.000-07:00

Big Bazaar in the Mall

2007-11-03T06:17:00.000-07:00

Mall

2007-11-03T06:15:00.000-07:00

2006-05-13T05:52:00.000-07:00

Students browsing books and waiting for bus home at fountain.

2006-05-13T05:51:00.000-07:00

Bookstall at the end of the fountain.

2006-05-13T05:24:00.000-07:00

Pavement bookseller - What the other half reads - Carl Sagan, Born to Win and Dictionaries.

2006-04-08T15:10:00.000-07:00

Bombay Central Express is the name of the bus that won't stop because of the crowds waiting for it at the bus stops of Bombay Central.

2006-04-08T15:08:00.000-07:00

Pushing a cart on the roads of Bombay is not an easy job.

2006-04-08T15:07:00.000-07:00

Streets of Mumbai are lined with trees, as you can see from this picture.

2006-04-08T15:06:00.000-07:00

Bridge over crowded streets

2006-03-24T19:16:00.000-08:00

I meditate therefore I am not he - Archus Chinchotia of Bhuleswar.

2006-03-24T19:12:00.000-08:00

Chasing shadows in the afternoon sun, for it is essential to know the shadows in order to understand the sun - Alburaka.

2006-03-24T19:09:00.000-08:00

In the shadow of the afternoon sun, a young student of Jai Hind college seeks answers.

2006-03-24T19:03:00.000-08:00

House with a tin pot under the pipal tree with a ladder to the top.

2006-03-24T19:01:00.000-08:00

The Fall of the Wall, it's just another brick in the rumble.

2006-03-24T18:58:00.000-08:00

Dignified Taxi Driver

2005-10-26T20:47:00.000-07:00

The Nausea is not inside me:
I feel it out there in the wall, in my pans,
and everywhere around me.
It makes itself one with the supari,
I am the one who is within it.
- Bald Panwalla quoting Satirical Sartre.

2005-10-26T20:42:00.000-07:00

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

2005-10-26T20:40:00.000-07:00

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity" quoth the young boy outside the aarey PCO booth.

2005-10-26T20:37:00.000-07:00

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a mobike. I only owe it to the gravity's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment." -- Jockwink Wickedsatan.

2005-10-26T20:34:00.000-07:00

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.-- Ludwig Wittgenstein.

2005-10-26T20:32:00.000-07:00

Dog checking out the motorcycle wheel. "For a truly dogmatic dog nothing is tragic." -- Bigwig Canine.

2005-10-26T20:30:00.000-07:00

If he were to speak, we would not understand him -- Wittgenstien.

2005-10-26T20:28:00.000-07:00

"Of what we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein.

2005-10-26T20:25:00.000-07:00

Playing in the streeeeeets of Opera house.

2005-10-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

Stocktraders and diamond merchants looking lost outside Panchantrata (Opera house).

2005-10-26T20:23:00.000-07:00

Panwalla (made from Betel nut) at Opera house.

2005-10-26T20:22:00.000-07:00

Hot sandwiches made on a coal sigri (stove) behind Roxy.

Har koi chahe do bhiga zameen

2005-09-19T22:14:00.000-07:00

A tired man taking a short nap on the steps of Churchgate station
after a grueling rush hour journey from Borivali.

2005-08-26T22:30:00.000-07:00

Shoe shiners at VT Station

2005-08-26T22:28:00.000-07:00

Manmad Express outside CST (VT) station.

2005-08-26T22:22:00.000-07:00

Tin housing in by the railway line

2005-08-26T21:55:00.000-07:00

Byculla Station is not crowded in the afternoon.

2005-08-26T21:54:00.000-07:00

Cricket match proceeds in Chinchpokli, the hole in the wall is a path for people to cross the train tracks over the garbage dump.

2005-08-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

Portable plastic paraphernalia shop in a train.

2005-08-26T21:47:00.001-07:00

Sion Station

2005-08-26T21:47:00.000-07:00

Housing under the powerlines don't have electricity in Kurla

2005-08-26T21:46:00.000-07:00

Road by the railway line near Vikhroli

2005-08-26T21:40:00.000-07:00

Housing next to train tracks in Sion.

2005-08-26T21:39:00.001-07:00

Kurla as seen from the train

2005-08-26T21:39:00.000-07:00

Lady seller working hard on a train.

2005-08-26T21:38:00.000-07:00

Boy at the Vidhyavihar platform talking to his dad.

2005-08-26T21:37:00.000-07:00

Assorted crowd in CR II class ladies compartment going to VT.

2005-08-26T21:36:00.000-07:00

Vidyavihar Station (Vidya=knowledge, Vihar=house) as seen from the train.

2005-08-26T21:35:00.000-07:00

Chikko seller's basket in a Central Railway Ladies compartament.

2005-08-01T08:05:00.000-07:00

Fallen tree blocks Ghas Gali in Agripada, Bombay, after the heavy rains of 30 July 2005.

2005-08-01T08:04:00.000-07:00

Fallen trees in Mumbai can't stop the traffice (after the heavy rains of 30 July 2005)

2005-07-27T22:31:00.000-07:00

Vendor of colourful hand bags at dusk near AtoZ in Mumbai.

2005-07-27T22:17:00.000-07:00

The nightcalm is turning into breeze of chaos - stack of enclosures, The dawn of plastic night begins with a small spark, and then there is nothing. Just plastic dreams, at Fountain.

2005-07-27T22:14:00.000-07:00

Rose colored glasses,
They only see what they wanna see and my,
Heart always crashes without my rose colored,
Rose colored glasses, when hearts break like glasses at dusk, only the dead float like lamps.

2005-06-14T20:08:00.000-07:00

Reincarnations of the departed souls

2005-06-11T16:52:00.000-07:00

"No one is ever satisfied where he is," said the switchman. Everybody is going somewhere.

2005-06-11T16:51:00.001-07:00

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..."

2005-06-11T16:51:00.000-07:00

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." -- Time wasted is time existed.

2005-06-11T16:49:00.000-07:00

"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. - The Fox

2005-06-11T16:48:00.000-07:00

Pawna Dam, says the sign in Hindi and Marathi

2005-06-11T16:46:00.000-07:00

ST Bus enroute to Rajmachi

2005-06-11T16:43:00.000-07:00

Family by the lakeside, Bordi

2005-06-11T16:42:00.000-07:00

Lost in the forest of Bordi.
The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.

2005-06-11T16:41:00.000-07:00

"One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me..." -- Little Prince

2005-06-11T16:39:00.000-07:00

"Where are the men?" the little prince asked, politely. The flower had once seen a caravan passing.

2005-06-11T16:38:00.000-07:00

"Men?" she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Existential Proofs

2005-06-11T16:36:00.000-07:00

"The proof that the little prince existed is that
he was charming, that he laughed, and that
he was looking for a sheep.
If anybody wants a sheep,
that is a proof that he exists."

- Antoine de Saint- Exupery

2005-06-10T23:09:00.000-07:00

The time in mumbai is 8:55am. Time to close shop. Tada.

2005-06-10T23:03:00.000-07:00

Holy man is invisible on the steps of Kamala Nehru Park leading to the Governor's Bungalow.

2005-06-10T23:01:00.001-07:00

Mobile shopkeeper heading up Walkeswar on his cycle.

2005-06-10T23:01:00.000-07:00

From Chowpatty to Walkeshwar to Teen Batti to Mt Pleasant Road in Malabar hill.

2005-06-10T22:59:00.000-07:00

Tranquil Arabian sea and Tifr.

2005-06-10T22:58:00.001-07:00

Chowpatty

2005-06-10T22:58:00.000-07:00

Wilson College, Chowpatty, Mumbai.

2005-06-10T22:57:00.001-07:00

Lady Blue at the Yellow Chowki

2005-06-10T22:57:00.000-07:00

Boy playing ball in the morning sun at Chowpatty beach, Bombay.

2005-06-10T22:56:00.002-07:00

Hotel Ambassador, Churchgate

2005-06-10T22:56:00.001-07:00

Churchgate

2005-06-10T22:56:00.000-07:00

Fountain

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Beggar ignoring the mercedes at Fountain signal.

2005-06-10T22:54:00.001-07:00

Phirozshah Mehta Road, Bombay 400001, like the road sign says.

2005-06-10T22:54:00.000-07:00

Fountain or Fort

2005-06-10T22:53:00.002-07:00

RBI (Reserve Bank of India)

2005-06-10T22:53:00.001-07:00

Man and the Bank (RBI)

2005-06-10T22:53:00.000-07:00

BEST also serves those who stand and wait in the sun.

2005-06-10T22:52:00.002-07:00

A view from the top of Old Custom House, Mumbai.

2005-06-10T22:52:00.001-07:00

Old Custom House

2005-06-10T22:52:00.000-07:00

Colaba

2005-06-10T22:51:00.001-07:00

Dishing it out in mumbai

2005-06-10T22:51:00.000-07:00

BSE (Bombay stock exchange) home of Harshad Mehta.

2005-06-10T22:50:00.000-07:00

Elphinstone College, 156 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai (Bombay) 400032 Maharashtra India; opened in 1835.

2005-06-10T22:46:00.000-07:00

The Churchgate to Flora Fountain (the Roman goddess of flowers) which was erected in 1869.

2005-06-10T22:43:00.001-07:00

Bombay University from Churchgate

2005-06-10T22:43:00.000-07:00

Eros theatre opposite Churchgate, Bombay.

2005-06-10T22:42:00.000-07:00

Parking in the shade of the Pipal at Hotel Ambassador, the revolving restaurant of South Bombay.

2005-06-10T22:41:00.000-07:00

Hotel Gaylord, Churchgate, Bombay.

2005-06-10T22:29:00.000-07:00

Bombay Central Station