weekend shopping fragments - a mall, a street and at home

here are some more random fragments from the past two days of shopping.

first is the new shoppers stop at juhu. smooth all the way down to the pavement and pure white marble on the inside where mukul bought clothes for his trip to delhi and then frankfurt. much more bearable than the overdone atria and nowhere as close to the ridiculous raghuleela, but a little on the safe, well-finished side.

then the lokhandwala market where we gave jayashrees camera for repair. here the frightening high rise housing meets the street with a rowdy line of designer rip-off clothing stores with funky names and glittering letters on alucobond signage. on the streets the filmy wannabes walk around like the mannequins in the stores wearing real tight t-shirts with muscles bulging out and sunglasses perched on top of newly coloured hair. i have an idea for a poem that collects the words that form the names of the stores along the street. pepper tree, nu shooz, blossom, snazzee.

towards the end of the street a modernist black glass block is showing signs of life as signage spills out from the archways and a new layer is formed giving it a new life.

today after the music system in my room was finally in place, as i was listening to the clogs’ and their ambient patterns the bengali sari man came home. its been years since he did and today the saris were really not as great as they are generally. my mom had to buy and so she did. cottons. beautiful green, off white and ephemeral strewn all over the living room.