Wednesday, December 27, 2006

day 1 field visit


powai

jeebesh and anant

cotton exchange

sewri pavement dwellers

nilesh at udui shri krishna

darukhana


darukhana

phoenix mills

star night bar at guzder bunder in khar- love the mirrored facade

taking people around the city reveals it anew to me. today in a qualis anant, jeebesh, jeenal, aparna, nilesh, rupali and me drove from juhu to malls at inorbit, to sites and services housing at charkop to thakur complex and aarey milk colony to powai and then mankhurd and touched down in navi mumbai. after lunch at the ‘established in 1942’ udupi shri krishna near matunga station with the banaleaves and authentic sambar and rice (along with the very vociferous proclamations of originality and uniquenaess) we got to the eastern waterfronts where it seemed as if the ship breaking yard was gradually shrinking. after a terrible ride hunting for kerosene wharf we got to phoenix and then back to juhu. and everywhere, absolutely everywhere we could feel the heat of the pressures of development. change is good. perpetually.

the presentation for the ‘eu’ conference is tomorrow and muki and me finally put together some photographs.

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