"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim." - Christopher Morley
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| Photograph: Animesh Dutta |
Charmed by the sheer swagger of the city that I still love to call Bombay, I step out to capture the mundane streets whose charisma lured me, especially during the night. The dimlit streets looked subtly magnificent in the backdrop of the rains, which happens to be my favourite season.
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| Photograph: Yashnashree |
The Marine Drive defines Mumbai in more ways than one.
It engulfs the attention of one and all. Though the Queen’s Necklace is the obvious choice for photography, I chose to shoot a different perspective of the place. The traffic and speeding vehicles running parallel to the sometimes calm, sometimes agitated sea drew me. The streets of Mumbai attract me due to their contrasting character. The stillness of the sea sometimes gets lost in the hustle-bustle and noise of the street. At other times the tranquility overpowers all the clamour. The streets of Mumbai are a world in themselves. While crossing the same streets everyday, a range of emotions are evoked as I see an array of diverse people, incidents and events that give the street its distict feature. It fills me up with a sense of belongingness and oneness with the city. Mumbai’s streets come alive at night and that explains exactly why is Mumbai well known as the city that never sleeps!
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Colours spilt over the street! Photograph: Yashnashree
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