The rains in Mumbai is quite refreshing, although considering that it is an island city, it does tend to get very humid. But the good part is all the pretty umbrellas that can be seen on the roads. This one is the most colorful of the lot, and sadly a few day after this picture…
The River of Learning
The heritage building called Elphinstone College, was established in 1856 is an institution of higher education in affiliation with the University of Mumbai. Said to be one of the oldest colleges of the University of Mumbai, it boasts of a illustious alumni with names like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Pherozshah Mehta, and Jamshedji Tata. The college celebrated 150 years in 2006 with Sesquicentennial celebrationsas is categorized…
A Lost Cause
These ruins belong to one of the most grand hotels of the city at one time, called Watson’s Hotel which was restricted to ‘whites only’. The hotel is said to be the first of its kind to boast of ceiling fans. while popular folklore has it that the 1903 Indo-Saracenic style The Taj Mahal Palace hotel resort owes its existence…
Banking In Style!
Moving along in my exploration of the Victorian town side of Mumbai City, this is the Head Quarters of the Standard Chartered Bank Mumbai. What I loved about this building is are the statues that you can see from across the street. I have added the entire structure inset, with the image. Do let me…
Abundance of Heritage
The abundant heritage structures run thick throughout Churchgate. Just beyond the Sassoon Library and the Army and Navy building, is the Life Insurance Corporation of India’s building. It also overlooks the Flora Fountain and the Amar-Jyoti-Jawan memorial (You can see a back view of these two statues). Makes for a good view even from the back, dosn’t…
The Class Of The Army and Navy
The Army and Navy building is located just next to the Davis Sassoon Library. The stunning heritage building, like every other heritage building is now no longer what it used to be. The elegant building is now house to popular retail store Westside. Whatever said and done, the structure remains just as magnificent as it…
The Reading Room
One of the oldest reading libraries in the city is The David Sassoon Library. The heritage structure was built by Albert Sassoon, and is named after his father Baghdadi Jewish philanthropist, David Sassoon. The building designed by architects J. Campbell and G. E. Gosling, for the Scott McClelland and Company, the structure is created using yellow Malad stone, with…
Inviting Him Home
A Gopuram or Gopura, is a structure set in stone and usually brightly painted placed either at the entrance of any temple, or over the deity’s shrine mostly in temples in Southern India or from south Indian origins. Temples in south India are called Koils, and the gopuram structures can be traced back to the…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Hot
Hutatma Chowk or the Martyr’s Square was renamed to its current name in 1960 in the memory of the 105 Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti members who were killed in a police fire that marred their peaceful demonstration in January of 1960. They were demanding a separate Marathi-speaking state in the country, and their efforts bore fruits…
Communal Harmony
Bandra is one of the most harmonious suburbs of the city. Despite its cosmopolitan nature, the place several religious buildings including churches like the famous Mount Mary’s Basilica, a Parsi fire-temple called Tata Agiary, the Jama Masjid (mosque) close to the Bandra West railway station and a temple dedicated to Goddess Jari-Mari. I got this…
Snapshots of my World 