Bombay Framed
After weeks of procrastination and in the middle of two unfinished not-yet-started term papers, I visited DAG, Taj for the Bombay Framed art exhibit! Map of Bombay (1922-1923) badly clicked by me. They have written "congested area". In that case, today's map of Mumbai must have "congested area" written all over it! The font!! The way "Eastern Avenue" is written gives me goosebumps! And lo, they had decided that it was going to be Albizia trees. The Mumbai-Pune Expressway via the Western Ghats nearly two centuries ago. No cars, only elephants and horses. At the Elephanta Caves. Damn I too want a walking stick if it can help me pose like that man with the green turban is. The sarees drying on the stairs look so perfect, so real! When in Bombay Mumbaikars were always fashionable I suppose. I could look at this particular photograph (1950s) for hours. The men's piercing stares, the advertisement in English, and the skulls in the background. Women (b...
