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Saturday, May 07, 2005

Utsav near HLL office in Backbay Reclamation

Utsav is a Gujarati style eating place and is on the first floor of the famous Samrat Resturant near Marine Drive. You can go to Utsav for a Gujarati Thali (buffet of course) and enjoy good food. The star attractions I found were the chatnis, aam ras, tawa rotis with desi ghee (ghee being optional) and pulav with lots of kaju, kishmish etc. Gujaratis put sugar in almost all their subzis - dals, sukhi sabzi. Approxmate bill per head for a thali is Rs. 130/-.

Cream Centre at Linking Road, Bandra (W)

Cream Centre is decent place to eat and is in front of Amarsons on Linking Road in Bandra (W). When you sit in your seat in this place, the waiters would give you a form to fill for 'customizable' parathas. You can choose from variety of stuffings (aaloo, mooli, gobi, cheese, baby corn etc), spices (corriander, jeera etc), sauces (like makhanwala etc). With a average hunger, one paratha would suffice. It's a decent Rs. 100/- per head eating place. You get things other than parathas as well, which I haven't tried as yet.

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Two blind men at Dadar Station

This time I was at Dadar station. While I was climbing the overbridge to move towards Central line (Dadar is a station where both Central and Western lines meet), I heard a sweet sound made by a string instrument. 'Luckily', I found the source when I saw this man, blind again, standing in the middle of the walking area of the incline of the brindge, playing a tun-tuna and singing some religious song and soliciting some money for his performance. I say luckily, because there were so many people around that it was difficult to locate the source of this muscial sound.

Moving ahead, I saw another blind man on the over bridge, seeking donations from people so that he could support himself. He was begging.

Could I see a similar difference between choices people make to sustain themselves? Begging vs Singing to earn a livelihood?