Arise!

Rising clouds in the Bandra Kurla Complex.

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Healthy sign

A sign reminding everyone that Healthy Air = Healthy Planet.

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Hazy

A hazy sunrise in Mumbai.

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Bougainvillea

A profusion of bougainvillea to brighten up the Family Court in Bandra Kurla Complex.

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Mélange

A mélange of hands and foot is what I deciphered on this wall in the Mahim East Art District. Do let me know what you think of it in your comments. 

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Foliage

The main avenue in the Bandra Kurla Complex lined with flowering trees.

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Pigeon

The ubiquitous pigeon on the banyan tree outside my window, yearning to enter my house!

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Cottony

Cotton strewn around in the blue sky for the pair of birds to play around.

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Innovate

 Innovate a Green Future - a sign by MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) in Bandra east.

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Aboli

Aboli also known as the firecracker flower is the State flower of Goa. This is a picture of the bloom in my balcony in Mumbai.

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Palash

The Palash tree in the Thane creek Flamingo sanctuary, Mulund. This tree has been used in Ayurvedic medicine since ancient times. For more fascinating information about this tree do visit Know your tree

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Kindness...

A beautiful, colourful mural in the Mahim east Art District, with a message in Marathi that says 'Kindness has no price'. Glad I could get the guy cleaning the car too 😇

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Minimalism

A Black Kite flying in its Kingdom.

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Grey heron

A grey heron in the Thane creek Flamingo sanctuary in Mulund, profiled.

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Blue sky

A clear blue sky with a couple of tiny, wispy clouds and a pair of birds.

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Beware

There has been a spate of chain snatching incidents in the Bandra Kurla Complex area, hence the warning by the local Police,

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Mobile nursery

This cart belongs to a vendor who is a gardener, who moves around selling pots and indoor plants/saplings in Bandra east.

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Life cycle

The life cycle of an Easter Lily in my balcony.

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Wall art

A beautiful mural in the Mahim Art District. An initiative by St+Art India foundation with Asian Paints.

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Shadow selfie

 A shadow selfie in the Bandra Kurla Complex.

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Asian Koel

A female Asian Koel dropped by for breakfast outside my window,

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Sunrays

A beautiful sunrise with silver lining on the dark clouds in Bandra east.

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SOS

A thoughtful message - What we save saves us!

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Oleander

Oleanders wave the double-decker bus goodbye in the Bandra Kurla Complex.

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Watermelons

Watermelons on sale in Santacruz, to cool you down in the hot summer days of Mumbai.

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Stay safe

Despite the mask mandate being off since a fortnight it is advisable to stay masked to stay safe as the artist portrays in the lovely mural in Bandra east.

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Natural maze

The bare branches of a gulmohar tree in Mulund form a natural maze.

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Follow the leader

Flamingos at the Thane creek flamingo sanctuary in Mulund.

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Skyscratchers

Skyscratchers which will soon be skyscrapers in Bandra east.

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Granite

A one stop shop for Granite in Andheri. These shops are flourishing to supply the increasing demand in the construction business.

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Tabebuia rosea

Pink blooms line the street of the Bandra Kurla Complex in Bandra east.

Tabebuia rosea, also called pink poui, and rosy trumpet tree is a neotropical tree that grows up to 30 m and can reach a diameter at breast height of up to 100 cm. The Spanish name roble de sabana, meaning "savannah oak", is widely used in Costa Rica, probably because it often remains in heavily deforested areas and because of the resemblance of its wood to that of oak trees. It is the national tree of El Salvador, where it is called "Maquilíshuat"

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African tulips

The African tulip tree in full bloom in the Bandra Kurla Complex in Bandra east.

Common name: African tulip tree, Fountaintree • Hindi: Rugtoora रगतूरा• Tamil: Patadi • Bengali: Rudrapalash • Kannada: ಜೀರ್ಕೊೞವಿಕಾಯಿ, ಜೀರ್ಕೊಳವಿಕಾಯಿ Jeerkolavi kaayi, ನೀರುಕಾಯಿ Neeru kaayi, ಉಚ್ಚೆಕಾಯಿ Ucche kaayi

One of the world's most spectacular flowering trees, African tulip tree is a large upright tree with glossy deep green pinnate leaves and glorious orange scarlet flowers. It may grow to 80 ft on an ideal site, but most specimens are much smaller. The tree has a stout, tapering, somewhat buttressed trunk covered in warty light gray bark. The lateral branches are short and thick. The 1-2 ft long opposite leaves, which emerge a bronzy color, are massed at the ends of the branches. They are composed of 5-19 deeply veined oval leaflets. The horn shaped velvety olive buds appear in upturned whorls at the branch tips. A few at a time, the buds of the lowest tier bend outward and open into big crinkled red orange tuliplike bells with red streaked gold throats, frilly yellow edges, and four brown-anthered stamens in the center. They are followed by 5-10 in green brown fingerlike pods pointing upwards and outwards above the foliage. Each of these pods contains about 500 tissue papery seeds. The tree flowers in spurts all through the growing season, but peak bloom is usually in the spring.

Info sourced from Flowers of India

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Van Gogh

A beautiful mural of a masked Van Gogh, in Bandra east.

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Beautiful corner

A mini minaret adorning the Hajiani tomb in Worli.

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