A mural to brighten up the surroundings in the Mahim East Art District.
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The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters building built in 1893 is a Grade IIA heritage building. It's architecture is a blend of Venetian Gothic and Indo-Saracenic.
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An old banyan tree in the Bandra Kurla Complex. Hope it survives the ravages of 'development' in the area.
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A popular bakery in Bandra east. They will not give/sell any plastic carry bags but wrap up the products in newspaper and hand it over to you. They encourage the customers to get their own carry bags.
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The name Kala Ghoda (Black Horse) is a reference to the
presence of a black stone statue of King Edward VII (as the then Prince of
Wales) mounted on a horse that was built by Jewish businessman and
philanthropist Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, although this statue was removed
from the precinct in 1965 and subsequently placed inside the Byculla Zoo. A
local legend stated that the statues of King Edward and the one of Shivaji on a
horse at the Gateway of India came to life after midnight and battled it out on
the streets.
In 2017, the 'Kala Ghoda' returned to the area with a new
statue of a similar looking horse without a rider, being commissioned by the
Kala Ghoda Association. The statue, titled 'Spirit of Kala Ghoda' was designed
by architect Alfaz Miller and sculpted by Shreehari Bhosle. Ref Wikipedia.
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The terminus was designed by a British born architectural
engineer Frederick William Stevens from an initial design by Axel Haig, in an
exuberant Italian Gothic style. Its construction began in 1878, in a location
south of the old Bori Bunder railway station, and was completed in 1887, the
year marking 50 years of Queen Victoria's rule.
In March 1996 the station name was changed from Victoria
Terminus to "Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus" after Shivaji, the
17th-century warrior king who employed guerrilla tactics to contest the Mughal
Empire and found a new state in the western Marathi-speaking regions of the
Deccan Plateau.
The terminus is the headquarters of India's Central Railway.
It is one of the busiest railway stations in India, serving as a terminal
for both long-distance and suburban trains.