Some Mumbai pictures (pic-heavy, obviously)

[Recursion]

I haven't been able to walk around much yet but I'll be doing more of that soon. For now, here's some pictures from (and one of) my SUV.



Our beast, which we named Vahana. Its provenance is unclear, but we know at one point it was in Kenya. How exactly it got to Mumbai is a bit mysterious; having driven it, my theory is that it killed its handler, broke free from its tiedowns, and swam across the Indian Ocean.



Chinchpokli.



Parel.



The A. K. Chicken Center.



One of the nicer corners.



The Worli shantytown. 1.5 million people living in about 2 square miles. And it's not the most crowded slum.

(Trivia: that's the Arabian Sea washing up on the shore there; this was taken from the huge Sea Link bridge that links Bandra to Worli over a stretch of ocean.)



The tail end of that tent city

[elleng]

1. Great to see these,

and looking forward to all the following editions.
Thanks

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Exciting.

Stay safe.

[fizzgig]

3. the bit about the jeep made me laugh

thanks for sharing the pics, i look forward to more.

[AnneD]

4. Take pictures....

of the three styles of toilets: Indian, Western, and the Hybrids complete with the water cup. That fascinated everyone I told. The shoe mounds outside of temple is always amazing too.

[Recursion]

6. Heh. My first encounter with a squatty potty was in Istanbul

I went to a public restroom, paid my 10 lira, and went into... a room with a trench in the middle and tile all around.

I... tried my best. Results were... not good.

I quickly walked out after and grabbed my wife's arm. She saw the look on my face and figured out that we needed to go.

"Hon?..." she began.

I cut her off:

"Let us never speak of this bathroom break again."

[AnneD]

8. I used ....

the Indian toilet on the train going from Hyderabad to Madras. Raised up my sari, looked down and realized the toilet hole opened out to the railroad track. Thought I had a case of vertigo. Between trying to avoid my clothes and keeping my balance while trying to squat, I felt like I was aiming for a hole the size of a quarter on a surf board. I told my daughter I only dared go for the gold. She thought I was a riot.

[LeftofObama]

5. Fantastic pics!

Thanks for posting these. Between you and California Peggy I feel like a world traveler!

[Aerows]

7. Fantastic pics.

How does this pertain to domestic spying, since it is being done by people in many countries for profit? I love that you paid for the cremation of a woman's child, it was a wonderful humanitarian thing to do.

It doesn't excuse other things that violate civil rights. Who will you answer to them? You want to work in an area that utilizes IT to fuel the spying, and let me say it, the potential blackmail machine by extra-government agents.

I don't have faith in such agents or their agencies. I am following this off of a very heart felt post that you made that described your humanity. Recursion, that was never in doubt. You are a very humane person.

Being forced to follow inhumane policies, however, is what governments do when they wish to establish power beyond the humans that they govern, is an atrocity.

[Callmecrazy]

9. I love that you share your adventures with us...

Imagine living in that shanty town.
Keep the pictures coming.