as any fule kno

Monday, January 2, 2012

Latika!!


Posted by as any fule kno at 11:19 PM
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: Bombay VT, Harbour Line, Latika, Mumbai SCT, overhead bridge, Platform 1, Slumdog Millionaire

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About Me

My photo
as any fule kno
Bombay, India
View my complete profile

Blog Archive

  • ►  2024 (1)
    • ►  October (1)
  • ►  2023 (1)
    • ►  November (1)
  • ►  2020 (2)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  March (1)
  • ►  2019 (3)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
  • ►  2018 (6)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  April (1)
  • ►  2016 (7)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2015 (5)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2014 (12)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2013 (22)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ▼  2012 (27)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (5)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ▼  January (5)
      • FirstPost Mumbai: Garbage-in, Garbage-out: The sta...
      • A Bookshop dies: a paean to Manney’s
      • FirstPost Mumbai: When Dharavi grows up, it wants ...
      • Urban Bawl 4: Dead Spot
      • Latika!!
  • ►  2011 (15)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  March (1)
  • ►  2010 (6)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  April (1)
  • ►  2009 (12)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  January (3)

Popular Posts

  • Dil ko khush rakhne ko, Ghalib, yeh khayaal achcha hai (translated by Mustansir Dalvi)
    a Ghazal by  Ghalib Husn-e-maah garche ba-hangaam-e-kamaal achchaa hai Us-se mera maah-e-kursheed jamaal achcha hai Bosa dete nahin...
  • FirstPost Mumbai.The Blue Tarpaulin
    Here is my new column on FirstPost.Com. The Blue Tarpaulin: What it bares about Mumbai's high-rises In my opinion, La Familia ...
  • Rediscovering Mario Miranda
    On a recent visit to Goa, I had the opportunity of visiting a work in progress- a museum to house the works of the cartoonist Mario Miranda ...

Labels

Mustansir Dalvi (72) Mumbai (55) Bombay (45) Time Out Mumbai (27) Time Out (25) translation (21) English (19) After Words (17) Nostalgia (15) architecture (15) Urbanism (14) Urdu (14) India (9) Urban (9) poetry (9) transliteration (9) Firstpost.com (8) Roman Urdu (8) ghazal (8) Ghalib (7) Mirza Ghalib (7) Urban Bawl (7) travel (7) spain (6) urban design (6) urbanity (6) Hindi films (5) Manto (5) art (5) books (5) photography (5) Firstpost (4) Poona (4) Saadat Hassan Manto (4) Sir Jj School of Art (4) cinema (4) city (4) conservation (4) review (4) In Conversation (3) Manto stories (3) Mario Miranda (3) Navi Mumbai (3) Poetrywala (3) Rahul Mehrotra (3) Ranjit Hoskote (3) climate (3) livable city (3) partition (3) personal (3) poems (3) slums (3) 2013 (2) Alhambra (2) Amitabh Bachchan (2) Bombay Doordarshan (2) British Council Library (2) Commentary (2) Culture (2) Deonar (2) Domus India (2) English poetry (2) Goa (2) Good manners (2) Granada (2) Hindi Picchers (2) Horror Films (2) Indian Quarterly (2) Indian poetry (2) Jehangir Art Gallery (2) Jitish Kallat (2) Kaiwan Mehta (2) Kala Ghoda (2) Lockwood Kipling (2) Marathi (2) Museum (2) New York City (2) Oman (2) Oval Maidan (2) Panvel (2) Rudyard Kipling (2) SRA (2) Sampurna Chattarji (2) Shivaji Park (2) Shivajinagar (2) Sholay (2) State of Architecture (2) Tekton (2) Tekton A Journal of Architcture Urban Design and Planning (2) Thane (2) Times of India (2) Travel Lite (2) Vikas Dilawari (2) art deco (2) book (2) cartoons (2) change (2) development (2) gentrification (2) highrise (2) illustrations (2) installations (2) madrid (2) memory (2) moral police (2) morality (2) poem (2) poet (2) reading (2) scroll.in (2) semiotics (2) smart cities (2) the Police (2) writing (2) 14 august 1947 (1) 15 August 1947 (1) 1969 (1) 1981 (1) 1997 (1) 2010 (1) 2018 (1) 29 November 2011 (1) 3 book reviews (1) 33/9 (1) 50th Anniversary (1) 9/11 (1) 9/11 memorial (1) Aah ki meri jaan ko qaraar nahin hai (1) Adbhut Kahaaniyaan (1) Aiyya (1) Ajeeb saaneha mujh par guzar gaya yaaron (1) Akhlaq Mohammad Khan Shahryar (1) American Center (1) Amul (1) Annie Leibovitz (1) Antilla (1) Apollo 11 (1) Architect (1) Argentina (1) Art Deco architecture (1) Art School (1) Arun Kolhatkar (1) Athena Kashyap (1) Back of the Book (1) Bal Bharati (1) Barriers (1) Between stillness and movement (1) Bhandup (1) Bhardwaj (1) Bhau Daji Lad (1) Bhau Daji Lad Museum (1) Bhendi Bazaar (1) Bhoot (1) Blue tarpaulin (1) Bo0mbay (1) Bo0mbay- in conversation with Kamu Iyer (1) Bo0mbay: from Precincts to Sprawl (1) Bollywood (1) Bombay Police Act (1) Bombay Stories (1) Bombay VT (1) Bricks (1) Byculla (1) Camp (1) Cannonball Tree (1) Canterbury (1) Central Time (1) Chabrol. Le boucher (1) Charles Correa (1) China (1) Chira Bazaar (1) Chor Bazaar (1) Christo (1) Coach (1) Cobalt Blue (1) Cold Flesh (1) Collapsing buildings: who’s to blame? (1) Column (1) Come let us find a place to live (1) Conversation (1) Copenhagen (1) Cordoba (1) Cosmopolitician (1) Couroupita Guianensis (1) Crest Edition (1) Crossing Black Waters (1) David Sassoon (1) David Sassoon Library (1) Davis Sassoon (1) Der du von dem Himmel bist (1) Devanagari (1) Dharavi (1) Dharmendra (1) Dhobi Talao (1) Didarganj Yakshi (1) Diego (1) Dirty Love (1) Domus (1) Dragon Tattoo (1) Eagle (1) Eastern Freeway (1) Economic and Political Weekly (1) Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin (1) Ein Gleiches (1) English Poetry by Mustansir Dalvi (1) Essay (1) Existing Land Use Plan (1) FIFA (1) FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil (1) Fences (1) Film Review (1) First Day First Show (1) Flora Fountain (1) Fly Sucker (1) Fontinhas (1) Football (1) Free Ride (1) Fumihiko Maki (1) Funny business (1) G B Mhatre (1) Gaman (1) Generalife (1) Gerard da Cunha (1) German (1) Germany (1) Ghalib's felicity (1) Gieve Patel (1) Ginger biscuits (1) Girangaon Marathi poetry (1) Glass Teat (1) Goethe (1) Gopaldas Saxena (1) Govandi (1) Green Sea Turtle (1) Green Turtle (1) Gulistan (1) Gulzar (1) Hai bas ki har ek unke ishaare mein nishaan aur (1) Harbour Line (1) Hate Story (1) Hemant Divate (1) Hindi (1) Hindi Film (1) Hindi Magazine (1) Hollywood (1) Housefull (1) Hunchback of the World trade Center (1) Husn gamze ki kashaakash se chuta mere baad (1) Husn-e-maah garche ba-hangaam-e-kamaal achchaa hai (1) Ibn Zamrak (1) Ibn e Mariam hua kare koi (1) Ibn-e-Mariam (1) In Joy Still Felt (1) In Memory Yet Green (1) Indian English (1) Indian English poetry (1) Indian citizenship (1) Indian independence (1) Indian television (1) Iqbal (1) Ishrat-e-qatraa hai (1) Islam (1) Jane jacobs (1) Jawab-e-shikwa (1) Jawaharlal Nehru (1) Jazz (1) Jerry Pinto (1) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1) Kaarvaan guzar gaya (1) Kaarvaan guzar gaya gubaar dekhte rahe (1) Kala Ghoda Poems (1) Kallat (1) Kamu Iyer (1) Kavi Neeraj (1) Khotachiwadi (1) Kipling (1) Landscapes of Exclusion (1) Latika (1) Lennon/McCartney (1) Lichtenstein (1) Lisbeth Salander (1) Living (1) Loo (1) Loo Brow (1) Mahek Bhi (1) Majhe Vidyapeeth (1) Makkhi Choos (1) Makkhichus (1) Man on Moon (1) Manish Market (1) Manney's Bookshop (1) Manto centenary (1) Maradona (1) Marseilles (1) Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmed (1) Meena Kumari (1) Mehrotra (1) Michael Collins (1) Mikael Blomkvist (1) Mindscapes of Denial (1) Money Order (1) Muhammad Iqbal (1) Mumbai Bombay Immersions (1) Mumbai Reader 10 (1) Mumbai SCT (1) Mumbai Two Decades After (1) Muscat (1) Mutton Street (1) Muzaffar Ali (1) NASA (1) NEERI (1) NGMA (1) Nanny State of Mind (1) Napier Cinema (1) Napier Talkies (1) Narayan Gangaram Surve (1) Nariman Point (1) Nasirid Palaces (1) Nehru's speech (1) Neil Armstrong (1) Neo-Classical (1) Network 18 (1) New Bombay (1) Nightsong of the Wayfarer (1) No country for young women (and men in love) (1) Noorul Hasan (1) Now I am gone (1) Oh (1) On Correa's Passing a Lament for Bombay (1) On turning fifty (1) Open Spaces (1) Osibisa (1) PDA (1) Palton Road (1) Palwa Bunder (1) Pankaj Joshi (1) Patna museum (1) Pedagogy (1) Penguin Books (1) Penguin Classics (1) PenguinBooksIndia (1) Pitkar (1) Platform 1 (1) Polio (1) Poonam Chambers collapse (1) Prince of Wales Museum (1) Priya Sarukkai Chabria (1) Public Spaces (1) Pucca (1) Pulse Polio India (1) Pune (1) Queen's Necklace (1) RCC (1) Radio Cinema (1) Radio Hotel (1) Rahiye ab aisi jagah chal kar (1) Raigad (1) Rajinikanth (1) Ralph Lerner (1) Ram Gopal Verma (1) Ramzan in Mumbai (1) Rang Bhavan (1) Ras Al Jinz. Ras Al Hadd Turtle Reserve (1) Ready Mix (1) Reasons to Love hate Mumbai (1) Reclamations (1) Robert Frost (1) Rock Machine (1) Rolling Stone Magazine (1) Roman Hindi (1) Roman transliteration (1) Rotary (1) SOA (1) Saadat Hasan Manto (1) Sachin Kundalkar (1) Sahir (1) Sahir Ludhianvi (1) Sameera Khan (1) Samourna Chattarji (1) Samovar (1) Sarita (1) Sassoon (1) Section 110 (1) Seene mein jalan (1) Serial Killers (1) Shahryar (1) Shikwa (1) Shilpa Phadke (1) Shilpa Ranade (1) Sholay-3D (1) Sir Jamshetjee Jeejeebhoy (1) Slow City (1) Slumdog Millionaire (1) Smart City (1) Sniffing Books (1) Soccer (1) South Africa (1) Space Gulliver (1) Space Gulliver- in conversation with Sampurna Chattarji (1) St. Xaviers (1) Statue of Liberty (1) Steven Holl (1) Stieg Larsson (1) Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex (1) Sultanate of Oman (1) Sunday Times (1) Sweden (1) Taj Mahal (1) Taking Issue and Allah's Answer (1) Ten Hindi Movies Only I have Seen (1) Terrace Gallery (1) Thanda Gosht (1) The Agency of Architecture (1) The Esplanade Mansion (1) The Fifth Estate (1) The Out Delhi (1) The Semiotics of Indian Citizenship (1) The caravan has passed (1) The promise of paradise (1) Time Out Bengaluru (1) Times Crest (1) Toba Tek Singh (1) Tomorrow was here Yesterday (1) Tranquility Base (1) Tryst with destiny (1) Tumchach naav livha (1) UDRI (1) URBZ (1) Umberto Eco (1) Unforgiving City (1) Urbs Secunda (1) VT (1) Vanishing Acts (1) Vieux (1) Vinod Khanna (1) Visitors Centre (1) Vividh Bharati (1) Walls (1) Wandrers Nachtlied (1) Watson’s Hotel (1) Weighty Tomes (1) West End Cinema (1) What I write (1) Why Loiter (1) Wishbone Ash (1) Women (1) World Cinema (1) World Cup (1) World Trade Centre (1) accessibility (1) alamilla (1) architectual interns (1) arenal (1) banners (1) barrier free (1) bawarchi (1) beach (1) bodies (1) book of poems (1) book review (1) book shop (1) bosch (1) brick kilns (1) brouhahas of cocks (1) cartoon (1) censorship (1) chelonia mydas (1) childhood (1) citizenship (1) clothing (1) cluster development (1) college (1) concrete (1) conference (1) congestion (1) construction (1) court of lions (1) dali (1) densification (1) disabled (1) egg laying of turtles (1) enjambed (1) exhibition (1) fabric (1) film (1) flowers (1) for a son of Mary to be (1) foreign students (1) france (1) gender (1) geraniums (1) graffiti (1) growing up (1) guernica (1) heritage (1) high rise (1) historical wrongs (1) housing (1) in memoriam (1) indecent behaviour (1) inner cities (1) inner cties (1) interns (1) interview (1) lafarge (1) libraries (1) local trains (1) main kya likhtaa hoon (1) marine drive (1) michel jackson (1) millennium (1) minimum wage (1) miro (1) moonwalk (1) mosque (1) movies (1) multicultural (1) museums (1) naqaab (1) naqab (1) nasirid (1) new designs (1) novels (1) ornament (1) overhead bridge (1) patio (1) pedestrians (1) picasso (1) planned precincts (1) pop (1) port (1) postmodernism (1) professional practice (1) public display of affection (1) public space (1) public toilets (1) rajesh khanna (1) re:claim (1) real estate (1) reclamation (1) redeeming our pledge (1) rehabilitation (1) remembrance (1) restoration (1) retro fit (1) riots (1) rock (1) satire (1) sculpture (1) skull cap (1) skywalks (1) slum-rehabilitation (1) spoken English (1) stencil (1) stone breaking (1) street (1) structural conservation (1) struggles with imagined gods (1) sweeping (1) television (1) tent city (1) the droplets desire (1) thriller (1) thrillers (1) trains (1) tropical trees (1) turtle watching (1) velaquez (1) wrap 1981 (1) Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh (1) ‘Buildings that Shaped Bombay’ (1) ‘Historicize and Problematize’ (1)

My Blog List

  • BAKER'S DOZEN
    Revolver Rani - I knew a Revolver Rani in real life. My Nani (maternal grandmother). I used to find the revolver hidden under her saris (she always carried a Smith & Wess...
    9 years ago
  • Last Train to Panvel
    Politicizing the Sacred: Religious Architecture in the Konkan - This essay is jointly written by Smita Dalvi and Mustansir Dalvi. It was first published in *Take on Art, *Volume IV, Issue 13, January 2014. The central t...
    10 years ago
  • UFT
    What’s In A Game? - *This is an essay I wrote for an Architecture school's annual publication. Re-posting it here. Unedited.* *WHAT’S IN A GAME?* What are the odds on anyon...
    12 years ago
  • Shoot First, Mumble Later
    William Kentridge at Volte gallery - The South African artist William Kentridge is showing at Volte gallery in Colaba. Anybody in Bombay between now and March 20 should definitely put the ex...
    12 years ago
Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.