I was at Masjid Bunder yesterday helping my aunt with some grocery shopping. For those of you who don't know Masjid Bunder - it is know for being a wholesale market and the second station on Mumbai's Harbour Line. It is the second station after Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus. (That's about how much I know about it :P)
Every time I'm here I feel like I'm walking in the streets of the old Mumbai - the Mumbai of the Mills Era. There's trucks to hand drawn carts being used in this area to transport good from place to place. Here I am reminded that Mumbai is a place where people work really hard. See the picture below, Its an old man carrying 2 pitchers of water. He was so old and still carrying that much load. I'm sure we wouldn't see any youngster in the city carry the pitchers this way.(Click on the images to view the full size version)
He's not a beggar... |
Everybody is carrying something |
Most buildings and some shops have this really old era feel to it. There were some shops where they lined the spices out in small trays for samples. Liked the colours... notice the shades of red?
Turmeric and Chilli powders with different spice limit :) |
Other Spices |
This is just fruits after the vendor had just sprayed some water on them. Not that I had not seen this before but... just went click :P
Fresh Apples |
I spotted a toys shop that sold smiles by the pack :D... If only it was that simple to buy smiles :)
A pack of smiles |
Something else I find in this city - Mumbai. There are a lot of kabutar-khanas. People here like to feed the pigeons and there a LOT of pigeons!
Here's a small Kabutar kahan in Masjid bunder and Pigeons :)
Pigeon Picnic |
That was one evening in one of Mumbai's busiest markets and thought of sharing what I saw :)
u shud visit tis place on a Friday..u wnt find any place to stand and click pics especially in the evenings...nice one...u have captured the essesence of Old Town Mumbai...
ReplyDeleteossum clicks!! Masjid has a big market for every business. Yeah, its a kind of integral part of bombay or call it ancient bombay.
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Sad thing i never knew till date ke masjid also comes on harbour line! :( anyways, a good write-up again.. Raat ke 3 baje mumbai ke baare me padhna..! Bliss..!!!
Bijoy.
Nice pic, all types of business are done in Masjid bunder....from Wholesale to Retails, there are many wholesale shop which give you the product below MRP rate.
ReplyDeletefor most of the people its home @ night people use to sleep on roads.
Masjid Bunder was first built for Central Railway and then Harbour line came into existence
Nice Photo Blog :-)
ReplyDeletePigeon Picnic, LOL :)
ReplyDeleteNice article. But it was like lukin at Mumbai through foreigner's eyes. Anyway, old-torn out notes are sold below der price( 10-30% lower) n den d shopwallah exchanges it at Reserve Bank for new note of 100% value..
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