BOMBAYWALLA

Stories of city structures.

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Deeply sorry to hear of Piyush Pandey’s passing. I knew him long before he became a celebrated adman, when I was almost the worst and he almost the best member of our college cricket team. Piyush was a superb wicket-keeper-batsman, who, even then, had a wonderful way with words.

[Avid Learning @AvidLearning]

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 https://t.co/kpihvDzLCp for more details!

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"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
https://t.co/TRs9lxCNKN

[Angshuman Choudhury @angshuman_ch]

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.

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M F Husain took to walking without shoes in the funeral procession & gave up wearing shoes for the rest of his life from thereon.
https://t.co/bwPXBxhZ7g

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@AmbarishSatwik @Indian_Accent Maybe the missing comma wasn't an 'accedent'.

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"In an era when Gujarat produced very few historians of note..."
https://t.co/NgEUhxO8WD

[Mumbai Heritage @mumbaiheritage]

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

[BOMBAYWALLA @BombaywallaBlog]

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 https://t.co/odk89qSHry

[Mumbai now and then @mumnowandthen]

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

[Art Deco Mumbai @artdecomumbai]

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

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[VOGUE India @VOGUEIndia]

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 https://t.co/2dcWN392us

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@_itsmetejas Doubt it

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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

[Sachin Kalbag @SachinKalbag]

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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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

[Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳 @dhavalkulkarni]

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 populated by #Goan and #EastIndian #Christians.

#Food #MumbaiFood #eatingout #diningout #khauguri #khawayya #history #heritage #Bandra

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

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

[Ranjit Hoskote @ranjithoskote]

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 grow silent and withdrawn on 11th November. Drawing on his childhood memories - and on family photographs - I wrote this poem when I was in my early twenties: https://t.co/vEbUQXkbbJ

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"You can say what you like about my poems, Anand, but when it comes to painting you simply don’t know enough!” #GievePatel
https://t.co/yl6EPMbKCB