BOMBAYWALLA @BombaywallaBlog

Stories of city structures. bombaywalla.org/gables-restaur… Bombay Joined March 2013

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Avid Learning @AvidLearning

6 months ago

Girgaon is calling—will you answer? 🚶🏽‍♂️ Walk its winding lanes. 🎨 Sketch its timeless charm. 📖 Uncover its hidden stories. Join #ZainabTambawalla & @BombaywallaBlog for a morning of history, storytelling & live sketching. 🔗 Head to avidlearning.in for more details!

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9 months ago

"Many music lovers today may not be aware of the context in which his father established himself as an important tabla player in Bombay after the 1950s." @aneesh indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

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Angshuman Choudhury @angshuman_ch

12 months ago

This should be taught across social science + architecture disciplines worldover as a case study of memoricide-through-renovation. The simplicity of the original setting was itself a historical artefact. It memorialised the pain. The makeover has disrupted that continuity.

Gems @gemsofbabus_

a year ago

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a year ago

M F Husain took to walking without shoes in the funeral procession & gave up wearing shoes for the rest of his life from thereon. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

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a year ago

"In an era when Gujarat produced very few historians of note..." scroll.in/article/107295…

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Mumbai Heritage @mumbaiheritage

a year ago

This is how small and where the Siddhivinayak Temple (Dadar, Mumbai) was originally. #GaneshChaturthi #Ganpati

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a year ago

Discover Rudi’s Bombay — three decades of a German Jewish émigré traversing the city’s creative landscape and steering it along the way. Register here avidlearning.in/event-details/…

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Mumbai now and then @mumnowandthen

a year ago

The Light of Asia Restaurant opposite the GPO. An Irani Cafe with a possible inspiration from a 1925 movie by Franz Osten and Himanshu Rai. The next image is an ad from 1935. The building was gutted in a fire recently which had this light extinguished for good. @mumbaiheritage

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Art Deco Mumbai @artdecomumbai

a year ago

Meet our youngest and oldest guests! #ArchitectsAndFirms #Exhibition #ArtDecoMumbai @BombaywallaBlog

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VOGUE India @VOGUEIndia

2 years ago

Patel, known by most as Miss Bombaywalla, is recording the ever-changing cityscape of Mumbai before it is lost to defacement in the name of development trib.al/Qnorawa

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2 years ago

In the course of a year, Famous Physical Culture Home lost 2 of its neighbours. Dreamland Cinema, formerly Krishna Theatre, whose rear facade formed the backdrop of the gymnasium & Madhavashram, the lodging house on the same street that was demolished after it completed a century

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Sachin Kalbag @SachinKalbag

2 years ago

My father's office, Mahindra & Mahindra, was at Cecil Court, Colaba. One floor above was Radio Ceylon, where Ameen Sayani came to work every day. My father — like millions of others — was such a fan that he'd often time his entry to Sayani Saab's. That's how I met him at age 10.

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2 years ago

For nearly a century, students of the Famous Physical Culture Home have been making likenesses of Shivaji. In 1929, when Y. R. Pedamkar had no money for the fees, Kashinath Phelwan, the founder asked "What can you give our gymnasium?" The student sketched this portrait of Shivaji

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Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳 @dhavalkulkarni

2 years ago

The Lucky Restaurant at Bandra West is a landmark. Many swear that it's biryani and butter chicken is among the best in #Mumbai. Apparently, the place was named 'Lucky' after a #Catholic priest when it opened in 1938. Then, #BandraWest was a largely Roman Catholic enclave…

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Sukhada @appadappajappa

2 years ago

Menu from the Light of Asia Restaurant. Mumbai, India in 1935.

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Ranjit Hoskote @ranjithoskote

2 years ago

It's Armistice Day today. My grandmother died on this day, 92 years ago. My father was a boy; he came home from school, wearing a remembrance poppy in honour of the war dead in his lapel, and was gently told that his mother had passed away. For the rest of his long life, he would…

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2 years ago

"You can say what you like about my poems, Anand, but when it comes to painting you simply don’t know enough!” #GievePatel scroll.in/article/105868…

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2 years ago

Tailors to Jeetendra, Sunil Shetty & Girgaum's lesser celebrities. bombaywalla.org/marlex-tailors

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2 years ago

“Please communicate following message to Sassoon, Bombay,” a telegram from Cairo said. @AjayKamalakaran @scroll_in scroll.in/magazine/10578…

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2 years ago

"The 'Evil Ladies of Girgaum', were a group of Samaj women from Goa believed to be indulging in sex-work in South Bombay in the early decades of the 20th century." scroll.in/article/105624…