Blogs from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia - page 7

In a dark and spooky night, the bats were flying outside the broken haunted castle. There came a sound eieerrr and some invisible ghosts covering a coffin and then emerged a tall Vampire, the ghosts’ boss. Oh! Forgot it, my name is Bhattacharjee Mrinank Bhattacharjee, I am a 9 year old author. Chapter 2- Vampire steals At night the vampire and his ghosts came to steal a bank and were successful and when police came the ghosts became invisible but the vampire became a bat and attacked with his army of bats and flew away with his bats and ghosts. Next day in the morning, the CBI officers with the minister saw the police forces dead. This was just introduction; real story starts now my friend!! Chapter 3- History of them One day, in the year ... read more

My night bus to Mumbai was much nicer than the one I took to Jalgaon. This one had sheets, a blanket and a pillow! I just wish I felt as clean as my sleeper having for the second time in a row, caught a night bus straight after a journey from somewhere else during the day, meaning I had no chance to take a much needed shower. About halfway through the trip however, I realised that my wallet had fallen out of my pocket - or even worse, had been pick-pocketed from me during my sleep. Asking the crew riding with the driver in the 'cockpit', there was a bit of a language barrier as I tried to explain what had happened. I was even beginning to think it might have been one of the crew. ... read more

Bombay - Die Portugiesen haben es vor knapp 400 Jahren an die Engländer verschenkt, weil König Charles II sich erbarmte, deren Königstochter Katharina zu heiraten. Entweder galt es für die Portugiesen damals einen Krieg zu verhindern oder die Schönheit der Katharina musste mit einer gewaltigen Mitgift etwas unterstrichen werden. Aber das muss uns heute ja nicht mehr interessieren. Auf einer altersgerechten Vormittagstour durch die 20-Millionen-Metropole haben wir uns ein paar indische Tempel angeschaut, wie überall sind die indischen Gottheiten meist farbenprächtig-kitschig bemalt, viel goldfarbener Glitzer und filigrane Wandstrukturen runden die Häuser ab. Zwischen den Tempeln erleben wir mit unserem Bus im Stau stehend immer wieder das Verkehrsschauspiel. In dem vielen Verkehr, in dem jedes Fahrzeug ständig die Hupe betätigt, um dann doch nur schleppend voran zu kommen, schlängeln s... read more

Hi all, Tuesday 31st May – Bangalore to Pune Now Uni was done I was back on tour with work! I had to be up at 5am to catch an 8.10am flight. We left at 5.30am and was at the airport for 6.45am, still a ridiculous amount of time given the time of the morning and the actual distance from my apartment to the airport. For once… my flight was on time! I was so tired I slept on the plane… we had to stop at Hyderabad on the way, bit of a detour but not many direct flights from Bangalore to Pune. And then I heard that the next stop after Pune was Goa! I was tempted to stay on the plane J The flight was remarkably uneventful, NOBODY talked to me (I guess I ... read more

Mumbai is a strange & fascinating mix of celebration & disaster! Though, this is quite true for all of India but it’s adequately obvious in the ‘Maximum City’. It’s full of people – starlets, dreamers, fantasizers. It houses India’s most prolific film industry & some of Asia’s biggest slums. Mumbai is exactly like it is portrayed in Bollywood movies. It’s jazzy & glitzy & then hard at times. The city has maddening energy & amazing of all, everyone seems quite settled with this fusion. On 12th Feb’16, as I stepped out of the Mumbai Airport after an early morning flight from Delhi, I was greeted by palm trees (precisely, 3 trees ;)) & warmer humid (not so much though) winds & for a moment I thought I was in Goa ;) However, ... read more