12/06/2025
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Falling in love with Mumbai…
I swear, sometimes Mumbai looks like a pretty water colour hung up for exhibition at the Jehangir Art Gallery. When I look at pictures like this spectacular one taken by I don’t know who, I wonder whether this gorgeous city is really the address of my home. An aerial view of Mumbai is any day more rewarding than one from ground level. I have been up in a chopper and marveled at how picturesque the city looks from thousands of feet above. Like in this astonishing image of South Mumbai. Shot at a time when the redevelopers were still standing at the drawing board with their blueprints for the Coastal Road and Metro. The Arabian Sea taking the city in its warm embrace. The rippling aquamarine waters merging seamlessly on the horizon with the fluffy baby blue monsoon clouds waiting politely at the city’s edge. Yes, this is a monsoon picture. You can make out from the number of buildings that have blue tarpaulins covering their terraces. Not every housing society calls Dr. Fixit or the Dambarwalla. Most think that a plastic sheet is enough. South Mumbai has fewer high-rise apartments and commercial towers than the suburbs. So the pretty art deco buildings and uniformly constructed housing colonies from decades ago are not entirely dwarfed by skyscrapers. Also in this concrete jungle, like the city’s lungs, are the green patches of Oval and Cross Maidan, Mumbai’s nurseries of cricket. And Wankhede, where it is actually played, and the Bombay Hockey Association’s astro turf stadium at Marine Lines. Plus, the ground of the Islam Gymkhana on Marine Drive. And Backbay Reclamation of southernmost Mumbai with Cuffe Parade around which ships sail to enter the port. I have been up in the sky and fallen all over in love with Mumbai again. Then landed and tried to rediscover my love…