right, I’m tryin to blast this one out cos otherwise I’m gonna miss my train so apologies for any tyipungh errorrs. Uh.. where was i? Oh yeah, Mumbai (bombay as the locals still call it), bollywood’s capital, london through a weird distorting mirror(if someone dumped a million tons of trash and shit on it), the indian city that never sleeps etc. This place is the most incredibly overcrowded bustling megametrolegolopolis (sp?) of the very rich and the very poor jammed together, a place where yesterday I saw an investment banker scraping human shit off his italian leather shoes. The buildings are all this kind of weird victorian (peculiarly indian) style of architecture- overly ornate, with stained glass and gargoyles, glass domes, and other architectural stuff I don’t know the names of, with statues of Kali and shiva and Ghandi, and ‘progress’ jammed all over (one indian architect to another in the dark: ’statue bro?’). I mean, check out the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 
railway station for fx sake. I love this city. I wana live here. Igotta go, I’ll add more bout mumbai later. catchn train to udaipur. laaaater!!
casio :: May.30.2008 :: architecture, india :: 1 Comment »
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wow, nuts! I had no idea thats what mumbai was like.