Why I love my city..a photo blog

A collection of pictures of Bombay stuff that I've taken over the last year or so...This is what keeps me a true blue Bombayite. However much I may bitch and moan about how stressful this city is, how expensive it is and how dirty it can be, I just look at these pictures I've taken and love it that teeny-weeny bit more.

I clicked this awesome Photoshopped image of Bombay life at the Kalaghoda festival in Bombay last year. I really think it captured the regular images of South Bombay that we see on the way to work everyday...

Flora gazing at the monsoon sky. I just caught this giant black cloud moving accross the sky as I was looking up at the top of the fountain.
(Flora Fountain monsoon 2005)

Burkha clad women dodging traffic in Mahim. View from my taxi window on the way back home to Bandra.

The walls of the Bombay Naval Dockyard. Notable ships built here include the ship that the Star Spangled Banner was written on and the HMS Trincomalee - the largest timber vessel built. (The Naval Dockyard also hosts some of the last walls of the original Bombay Fort)

A Sunday afternoon on Juhu Beach. This is the view from the Vie end of the beach (for you clubbing types) looking towards Versova. I love the incredibly over-dressed beachgoers.

G-d is a Bombaywallah.
And He will argue with an imposter.

Lund and Blockey Opticians at Kalaghoda...right next to the David Sassoon Reading Room (Members only, please do not spit)
I love this picture because it could easily be the 1890's. Except for this taxi that passed by just as I was clicking the picture.

Gazing up at the Rajabai tower at Bombay University. Since they've just opened it up for visits again, I'm sure I'll get some great pictures of Bombay from up there.

Looking out from one of the balconies of Victoria Terminus towards the Municipal Corporation building. Or as it is today, looking out from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation.

Flora contemplating her city..Flora Fountain, South Bombay. I love the old-world, mossy look that the fountain has during the monsoon.

The corridors at Bombay University. You've got to hand it to the British architects...they sure knew how to make a place look hallowed..

Just another lazy evening at the Gateway of India..This is what the ordinary Bombayite does on a holiday evening. Gasp for breath at one of the few open plazas in the city...this one right by the sea.

Graffitti was never truer.
Kalaghoda Art Festival, 2005.