Mumbai - The Island City 2

Picture taken at Marin Drive.

Mumbai - The Island City

The southern most tip of Mumbai.. well almost.. its the Gateway of India side of Mumbai taken from the boat on my way to Alibaug, a nice little place near the sea side which gives you a much needed relaxation. its not that far from Mumbai, a 45mins ferry and then half hour in the bus and you are there!!!

More Alibaug pictures are on its way.. but next stop for me is go to get some good pictures of the Queens Necklace, Marine Drive :) Any tips you got for me before i go there???

Ishaqzaade - Movie Review

            Saw Ishqzaade today. And seriously the only good thing I found in the movie were the main characters, Parineeta Chopra did a good job and so did Arjun Kapoor, he very convincingly portrayed the character of a spoilt brat.

            The whole movie is only about two people who start of hating eachother and then fall in love with each other – yes, the typical love story now add some family enmity and opposition from them.  So the spoilt brat realizes that he should take charge of the situation and elopes with the girl. You get the idea right?

So over all ill rate it like 2.5/5. Only for the actors!!!

Right Below The Sea - Link

Lane leading to jallianwala bagh

The famous narrow lane which leads to the enterance of Jallianwala Baug. This lane adds up to both the pro's and con's list of the place.

No to Cycle Rickshaw ... Please!

            I recently made a short trip to  Vaishnav Devi and Delhi. Vaishnav devi was added to the plan just because my mother wanted to go there. As it was a trip planned in haste we didn’t really get time to book our helicopter tickets. We figured that there has to be some kind of arrangement there to get the tickets or that we shall simply walk with others. But as we reached there my mom was not feeling well and the helicopter were not available. So the only option was to either go walking which I denied as it was jeopardizing mom’s health or we go in a Palki  or on a Horse. We decided we would rather cancel the plan than take any of those options. Many people laughed out that we went so long and still didn’t go take Darshan. To which mom and I both replied, “ if we want to go to the top we will go walking or by a helicopter not sitting on people’s shoulder or giving a rough time to the horse.”  I really believe that this is a very evil practice and also inhuman.

<== For those who don't know what a Palki is.

             We also have Cycle – Rickshaw in Delhi, our capital city. And I refuse to sit in them everytime I go there. 

How can anyone sit in it while the person in front of you is trying hard to pull you. And if that is not cruel enough, people sit in it with their whole damn family and luggage, all this pulled by a single man. 

      I am really looking forward to the day when our Government just bans the  whole idea of cycle rickshaw and start the normal auto rickshaw’s everywhere. I know its not that practical. Many of those Cycle Rickshaw drivers are poor and thus can’t afford an Auto Rickshaw. But that’s the point doesn’t this mean that we are taking advantage of the poor??? Government can come up with some policy something to take steps right?

Imagine a Person elder to you pulling you. And when you sit in a Cycle Rickshaw you can clearly see the energy he is applying to pull you, and god forbid if there a bridge or a land form with a upward incline then naturally they can't pull you so they actually get down from the rickshaw and pull you like horses pull the carriage. 

Cycle Rickshaw is just a cruel and inhuman way of travel which should be stopped Immediately.

<== Picture Clearly Depicting that the poor must always slog,  while the rich enjoys the luxury.

There are 3 adults, 1 child and loads of luggage and a single man is pulling them. and this is a everyday scene in Delhi ==>

Worli Village

               A part of Mumbai which is rarely discovered has to be the Worli village. People think that worli village has nothing to discover but the old forgotten Worli fort, which is not in a very good state these days. But what they fail to notice is that Worli village gives awesome photographic opportunities. You have the worli village to shoot, the sea, worli sea face, and if you are lucky enough you can actually go right below the Bandra Worli Sea link and take some amazing pictures.

            I always pictured worli village as a slum, but was quite astonished to see that it was nowhere close to what I pictures. Its damn huge… there are lanes so narrow and trust me you are a genius if you remember your way out.