Let’s go on a walk down Chimbai Road in Bandra. Through the bylanes, passing some vintage-cute bungalows, till we hit a decrepit bungalow with suspected squatters, take that left and walk till we reach the water’s edge. This is the Chimbai Koli village. Just across the water to the left, across the water you won’t […]
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A Love Eternal
She has been sitting on that parapet wall for an hour now. She gazes out at a landscape that isn’t exactly a great view but it is a view to her nevertheless. There is a wide open ground. At the very far end of that ground, she sees a few shanties where labourers live and […]
A City Without Old Memories..
This morning I was driving my usual route to work, and noticed vast emptiness. No, not within! But in the Sunnyvale (California) cityscape. Between last night’s drive back home and this morning’s commute to work, the sight of a fan like building with its imposing overhangs and cantilevers I used to admire everyday, two times […]