Sunday, October 03, 2004

Home sweet home

This weekend we moved into our new flat in Bandra, and it already feels like home.
We are in a quiet area called the bandstand, and I actually feel consistently relaxed walking around the streets in our neighborhood, something which can be a rarity in this country. Our flat is beautiful, and somewhat kitchy as well. It came fully furnished and it is clearly an apartment that belonged to a batchelor for many years. Throughout the apartment there are various nick nacks that a woman simply would not have tolerated. The feeling is completed by the decor: 1974 all the way. Browns, reds, oranges and yellows adorn the bathroom tiles and the living room upholstery. Each room has a balcony, very small though, just big enough to open the doors and step out onto, but essential for amazing crossventilation to deal with the Bombay heat. We're settling in and enjoying ourselves, feeling that in a certain sense part two of our Bombay experience has just begun.

Below are some pictures that I took at the most recent festival, Ganpati, honoring the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh. If you like these, you can check out others that I've taken since I got here at the Pbase site that I've just set up.


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