Blogs from Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Mumbai or better known as "Bollywood," displays the economic contrast that exist within India. Home of the biggest slums of India and ultra modern skyscraper that highlighted the shoreline. Although, my stay was short, I enjoyed the city despite its lack of affordable accommodations. And of course the bed bugs...What was most memorable about our stay in Mumbai was our struggle to find an affordable hostel that met our standards. Borja needed a good flushing toilet and I felt the same way. After wandering around near the Central Bus Station, we found a local... read more

Dadar is the CRAZY dirty dicey train station to which i arrivedfrom bangalore here to mumbai several weeks ago. wow. that sentence was something. my grammar is special. so as i type this in my friend's apartment, in the stairwell sit two women with two children. i'm not sure whether they are nannies or the mothers of these kids but there is a lot of commotion. i can hear the kids being smacked and crying. this went on for several hours yesterday too. on the anxious scale of 1-10 im at around 7 so i couldn't take it anymore and opened my door and peered out, not hoping (or hoping???) to catch one of these women mid slap. it's not that i want to judge these people. for disciplining their children..(they BETTER BE THEIR OWN CHILDREN) ... read more