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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Guru Granth Sahib & Islam




"Let mercy be your mosque, faith be your prayer-mat, and honest living your Quran"

So says the Guru Granth Sahib, and I was just delighted to find that out.
I'm yet to discover the origins of this translation, but if it is truly verbatim.. Go Gurus!
My preliminary google searching yielded various petty debates on whether the Sikh Gurus were muslim to have written this. I'm really hoping people stop being so insular.
Anyway, the picture above is of a mosques in Sharjah at, what is called, The Corniche. Woke up at 5 in the morning for this - dad was happy for the early-rising, but I don't think I'll be repeating that anytime soon :)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Sailing

My FIRST sailing outing/expedition/experience (I can't figure out the right word!!)

I had no idea you could rent a boat (it has a technical term which I can't remember right now) and sail off into the Arabian Sea. We crossed the Gateway of India, magnificent structure that it is.



I need to get a night shot of India Gate to match this.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Kala Ghoda Festival

Every year, Mumbai hosts a kick-ass Arts & Cultural festival called the Kala Ghoda Festival, held in the Kala Ghoda area of South Mumbai.
This year, I got lucky and was there amidst lots of installation art, music, photograph galleries, shopping stalls (with really out-of-the-box stuff) and yummy food!
I missed an African drum performance unfortunately... landed one day post that evening.

Everything happens on the streets..LITERALLY EVERYTHING. The following installations were all hanging by the trees...



And finalement... that's my best-est friend being followed by me, a la paprazzi, through the festival streets.