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	Dadar station as crowded on any hour of the day - any day of the week. [65 K]
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Other image galleries:

• Mumbai Ganeshotsav 2001 - 74 images from the 2001 Ganesh festival NEW!
• The Ganapati Gallery - images from the 2000 Ganesh festival
• The Navratri Photo Gallery - images from the 2000 Navratri festival
• The Rangoli Photo Gallery - Gallery of 'rangoli' sent by our visitors and subscribers

Other images in the album:

• Ganapati decoration at a home sthapana. The flower is made out of alum (turti) crystals. (sent by Nishad Pathare in Sep 2002)
• Marine Drive (submitted by Sumedh Sawant)
• Priyadarshani Park; photo taken in 1992. Sent by Vishu Rele (Scotland) in October 2001
• Malbar Hill Gardens (lady on a bench); photo taken in 1992. Sent by Vishu Rele (Scotland) in October 2001
• The Bombay University (sent by Madhusudan Desai, Sep 2001)
• A Ganesh idol at a Mandap near South Mumbai's Sasson Dock moments before the murti was immersed at the sea off Cuffe Parade (sent by Akshara, Aug 2001)
• The Nehru Centre at Worli (sent by Madhusudan Desai, Aug 2001)
• Ganesh idols being displayed for sale. The plastic sheet protects the clay idols from the rain. (sent by Madhusudan Desai, Aug 2001)
• The Central Railway Workshop at Matunga. Note the model of a suburban train in the bottom of the picture. (Sent by Madhusudan Desai, Aug 2001)
• The monsoon at Juhu. (sent by Madhusudan Desai, August 2001)
• The Rajabai Tower at night (sent by Mr. H S Khanna)
• The Central Railway Head Office (sent by Mr. H S Khanna)
• The leafy facade of the University of Bombay (sent by Mr. H S Khanna)
• The Taj Intercontinental Hotel (photo sent by Mr. H S Khanna)
• A narial (coconut) vendor at the Juhu beach in Santacruz
• Two views of the open air mall that is a bargain hunter's paradise: Fashion Street - (sent by Stuti Kalamdani)
• A tunnel on the new Mumbai-Pune highway (Feb 2001) - sent by Anupam Das
• A section of the new Mumbai-Pune highway (Feb 2001) - sent by Anupam Das
• A rainy rush hour scene (Sent by Stuti Kalamdani)
• VJTI (a premier engineering college) - as it was in 1923
• A scene from the Krishna-Janmashtami festival of August 2000 (sent by Nilesh Sawant)
• Reaching for the sky - from the Krishna-Janmashtami festival of August 2000 (sent by Nilesh Sawant)
• Aerial shot of the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Hotel (sent by Kurella Prasad)
• Worli sea-face (sent by Kurella Prasad)
• An aerial view of the Wankhede stadium (sent by Kurella Prasad)
• A purplish-blue wild Karvy flower, which blooms once every eight years, now seen at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai. More details here. (July, 2000)
• Mumbai as seen from space (sent by Sameer Upadhye.)
• Mahesh Bhupathi (facing the camera) and Leander Paes (back to the camera - wearing a white T-shirt) inaugurate the 'Scream Meter' at 'Planet M'
• Top view of Planet M - a music shop launched recently by the Times of India group
• 'Scream Meter' - an interactive kiosk for the promotion campaign of the movie - 'The Mummy', at Planet M
• Glass-domed subways at C.S.T. (the rly. station previously known as V.T.)
• Kids forming a human pyramid to reach the pot full of curds (dahi-handi) and break it, on the occasion of 'Gokulashtami'
• It's a bird's life - pigeons pecking away at grains on the Nariman point sidewalk
• The revolving restaurant of Hotel Ambassador against a gloomy, overcast sky
• Churchgate station at around 8.00 in the morning
• Indo Studio, a recording studio in Mumbai equipped with all kinds of recording equipment
• A Pool parlour in a suburb of Mumbai. (One of the several, mushrooming all around the city)
• Kids on top of Dadar station flying a kite. (Don't adjust your monitors, the photograph is blurred)
• Dadar station as crowded on any hour of the day - any day of the week.
• Holi revellers on Madh island in Mumbai
• One of the many variety acts which interspersed the awards
• The 'Suman Motels' Catamaran which ferries regularly between Gateway of India and Mandwa.
• The dome of the old Taj Mahal hotel, all lit up in the night.
• The Gateway of India at night. (One of the attractions in the 'Mumbai by night' tours organised by MTDC)
• The Mumbai skyline from across Chowpatty
• 'Please Keep Chowpatty Clean' - Announces a hoarding as Nana Chudasama joins forces with BMC to clean the beaches of Mumbai !
• A 'clean' beach in Mumbai. A rare sight made possible thanks to the BMC !!
• A bunch of kids enjoying their last days of Diwali vacation
• Hmmmmm....What do we eat ?? [An image of visitors at McDonald's looking at the displayed menu]
• McDonald's - The Family Restaurant [at Vile Parle (W) on Stn. Road]
• 'Torans' and 'Kandills' (strings of lights and lamps) - a common sight in households of Mumbai during Diwali.
• A cracker goes haywire in the sky !
• Daane Anaar Ke - Glowing embers spurt out from 'Anaars' (a kind of fire-cracker)
• Great Balls of Fire ! - A cracker bursting in the Mumbai night sky.
• The shops of the city as lit up as the skies during Diwali.
• 'Citi Centre' - A shopping mall in Goregaon all decked up for Diwali.
• Another shot of the Andheri market.
• Andheri Market (near station) on a weekday afternoon.
• Long shot of the building in which the idol of Lord Ganesh is placed [opp. Charni Road Station -East]
• The idol of Lord Ganesh to whom the train commuters of Mumbai pay their respect daily as the train leaves Charni Road station. [The idol is placed in a bldg. opposite Charni Rd. Stn. (East)]
• The Swami Narayan Temple opposite Dadar Rly. Stn. (CR)
• The Mumbai High Court and the Rajabai Tower (Univ. of Mumbai) with the Bombay Stock Exchange in the background.
• The Rajabai Tower (Univ. Of Mumbai) with the Bombay Stock Exchange bldg. in the background.
• Churchgate Station on a not-so-busy Saturday afternoon
• Flora Fountain/Hutatma Chowk
• A part of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (the facade previously known as Victoria Terminus [V.T.])
• A part of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (the facade previously known as Victoria Terminus [V.T.])
• The railway bridge at Matunga Road railway station (Western Railway)
• Long shot of UDCT - The University Dept. of Chemical Technology
• UDCT - The University Dept. of Chemical Technology
• What else? Mumbai Central!
• The inside dome of the Prince of Wales museum [one of the few museums allowing photography inside the premises]
• The Gateway of India
• The most expensive real estate in the city. [L-R: AI building, The Oberoi Sheraton and its extension and the Tata building]
• A Cool Cab - an air-conditioned taxi charging 1.5 times the regular rate
• Long shot Haji Ali [at low tide]
• Nehru Center [the cylinder], the Doordarshan Tower and a couple of other buildings from across the water.
• Haji Ali [at low tide]
• A BEST bus stop on Marine Drive
• The Air-India bldg at Nariman Point
• The alternative alma mater for a lot of us - Agru's at Dadar TT
• Plaza theatre, Dadar [showing Satya]
• Siddhivinayak Temple, Prabhdevi [in a pose to be used in a Hindi movie to show God's wrath]
• Siddhivinayak Temple, Prabhdevi