ABC Wednesday - Q for Quick dash

Quick dash across the road at the BKC juction in Bandra (East), Mumbai

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MyWorld

Model of our Earth in the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Udyan in Sion, Mumbai. This is how our earth will look if we do not care for it.

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Monochrome mania

A view from the ramparts of the Sion Fort in Mumbai. For more on the Sion fort visit my travel blog Travel magic

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Camera Critters

Contemplating on the flight ahead is this crow at Sion Fort in Mumbai.

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Saturday Photohunt - Mother

The photograph of Mother Durga - a Goddess, is on the cart on the left, and the picture of Sai Baba is on the right. This cart belongs to a nomadic family that is relaxing in the background in Kalina, a suburb of Mumbai. This family will go around accepting alms in the name of God/Goddess and park their cart wherever they find space and something to graze for their bulls.

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Skywatch Friday

A clear blue Mumbai sky as seen on 02May2010 at 1:33pm.

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Thursday Challenge - water

Off Mahalakshmi coast of Mumbai there is this Dargah (tomb) in the Arabian sea. The Dargah Sharief is built on a tiny islet located 500 meters from the coast, in the middle of Worli Bay, in the vicinity of Worli. The edifice is a brilliant specimen of the Indo-Islamic style of architecture. The islet is linked to the city precinct of Mahalakshmi by a narrow causeway, which is nearly a kilometre (0.62 mile) long.The Haji Ali Dargah was constructed in 1431 in memory of a rich Muslim merchant, Sayyed Peer Haji Ali Shah Bukhari , who gave up all his worldly possessions before making a pilgrimage to Mecca. Hailing from Bukhara, in the ancient Persian Empire and now in Uzbekistan, Bukhari travelled around the world in the early to mid 1400s, and then settled in Mumbai. As per the legend surrounding his life, once the Saint saw a poor woman crying on the road, holding an empty vessel. He asked her what the problem was. She sobbed that that her husband would thrash her since she had stumbled and accidentally spilled the oil she was carrying. He asked her to take him to the spot where she lost the oil. There, he jabbed a finger into the soil and the oil gushed out. The overjoyed woman filled up the vessel and went home.Later, Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari had a recurring - and disturbing - dream that he had injured Mother Earth by his act. Full of remorse, he soon fell ill and directed his followers to cast the coffin carrying his body into the Arabian Sea, once he died. Haji Ali left this world during his journey to Mecca and miraculously the casket carrying his body, floated back to these shores, getting stuck in the string of rocky islets just off the shore of Worli. Thus, the Dargah was constructed there.

Info sourced from Wikipedia.

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