What Makes The Culture Of A City?
I love cities. I’m a city dweller and I have a powerful connection to every city I have been in.
City
Cityscapes, city sights, urban communities, metropolis life, city dweller identity, focussed on Mumbai with an occasional mention of Delhi, Bangalore and other cities I’ve been in.
Island Cruising
Mumbai people often forget that in addition to the financial capital and Bollywood, we also live on a tropical island.
Social Ladder: Mumbai Class System
What about the Mumbai class divide?
Cityzen – A Mumbai Retrospective
My divided love affair between the cities of Bangalore and Mumbai
The Zen Of Change
We assume mountain lovers are all about the zen. But sea lovers know that the zen is also in the changing tides and the still sand. Children of the water remember that happiness is not the same as cheer or even calm at all times. And that life is about…
9 Lessons In Colour
I visited Greece and Turkey in 2008. Every moment was a lesson. Colour was a big part of it all.
Fullstop Face
People are stories, works in progress Politics of affection and sexual congress But a face is a fullstop, brackets even I picture your face when I’m grieving The ‘I don’t care’ writ large and wide Autographing what’s breaking me inside Happy face, loveface all forgotten Fullstop points to all that…
City Of One
I left work late but determined to use the remaining hours. The back of the cab was silent. I got to my to-call list, hitting deadends. I paused for those rare seconds in a Mumbai day when one thinks of absolutely nothing. Then I realised I was flying. Riding flyovers…
Tinsel Life
I feel like a character in someone else’s coming of age story. The kind about a young man discovering life, love and that, contrary to what his mama said, the universe does not revolve around him. I’m Sunday morning breakfast in a social calendar filled with boozy Saturday nights &…
The Space I Occupy
This picture was shot in January 2020. I had no idea that the what the years ahead would bring.