April 2011
8 posts
Mumbai: the last day
The next day, we headed to a free photography exhibition that we’d read about in the Time Out guide to Mumbai. It was snapshots of the city throughout the 1980s and 1990s - all in black and white, but reflected really well the juxtaposition of a developing, modern city well on its way in the industrialistion process, but growing out of a country still entrenched in poverty. For example, the...
Mumbai: dhobi ghats, Haji Ali's tomb, Gandhi's...
After the slum tour Florence and I took a train up to Mahalaxmi station to look at the “dhobi ghats”, the streets where people are employed to wash laundry from all over the city; this tradition goes back hundreds of years. To be honest I was expecting it to be more impressive than it was… it was essentially a long line of washing hanging, though I’m not really sure what I...
