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1 Ride the Gateway ferry 1 01 things to do in Goa
Party s in Goa
The water’s brackish and there’s roughly one life-belt for ev ery 1 01 things to do in Kerala
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20 passengers. But don’t let that stop y ou from taking a joy ride
1 01 things to do in Mumbai
Party s in Kolkata on one of the ferries at Apollo Bunder. The 20-minute ride
Party s in Mumbai around the harbour is perfectly safe, so long as y ou don’t lean
too far out of the boat.
Party s in Pune Gateway of India, Apollo Bunder. Ferries leav e roughly ev ery 1 5 LA B ELS
minutes. Rs 50.
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Video heritage Elephanta caves
2 Gape outside Mannat and Jalsa and Galax y

food
After a stroll along Bandstand’s promenade, take a long pit stop
outside Shah Rukh Khan’s mansion Mannat, where, if y ou’re
lucky , King Khan may emerge from the gate as he’s driv en to his
nex t shoot. Meanwhile, Amitabh Bachchan has shifted from his
old bungalow Pratiksha to the brand new Jalsa.
Address: Shah Rukh Khan’s Mannat, Band Stand, Bandra

(West), Mumbai 400050, India.
Address: Salm an Khan 3 Galax y A partments BJ Road, Bandra

Mumbai 400 050
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A bov e Railway Reserv ation Juhu, are together worth a whopping Rs 1 ,60 crore.
Interestingly , Jalsa, his second home, was gifted to him.
Counter,
1 st Floor, Opp Railway 3 Bet on the horses
Station,
1 23, M Karv e Road, The Derby is strictly for wannabes. For the real deal, v isit the
Opp.Churchgate, Mahalax mi Racecourse on a normal raceday – twice to four
times a week, depending on the time of y ear – and put y our lot in
Mumbai-400 020,
with the punters of ev ery description who mill about the
Maharashtra bookies. It doesn’t matter if y ou don’t know y our Fly ing Ranee
Tel : from y our Fly ing Toofan, just go with the fav ourites.
+(91 )-(22)-2207 4333, Roy al Western India Turf Club, Mahalax mi. Check
+(91 )-(22)-2207 4334, www.rwitc.com for race dates.
+(91 )-(22)-220331 44,
4 Fish at Powai Lake
+(91 )-(22)-220331 45
Fax : 022-2201 4496 There almost seems to be more crocodiles in the Powai Lake
E-mail : than rohu but don’t let that stop y ou from throwing out a line.
indiatourism[at]v snl.com The Maharashtra State Angling A ssociation assures us it’s safe to
A irport Domestic Counter: scope the waters for fish.
Maharashtra State Angling Association +(91 )-(22)-2857 1 7 80
022-261 5 6920
Club House, Powai Lake, Powai, Mumbai - 40007 6
A irport International
Counter:022-2832 5331 5 Jetski at Chowpatty
www.incredibleindia.org/
The H2O water sports centre offers scuba div ing, snorkelling,
water and jetskiing, among other facilities. If y ou are abov e 1 8,
Google Map for directions
y ou can charter a jet ski after attending a familiarisation
programme, which is offered free to all participants. Once y ou’re
used to the mean machines, y ou may be able to ride them alone
T A X I S ER V I C ES I N M UM B A I
but a lifeguard is likely to hov er close by .Salt water Grill
A s y ou need it for the full H2o Water Sports Complex
day go for the Cool cab +(91 )-(22)-2367 7 584,2367 7 546
Girgaum Chowpatty , Grant Road, Mumbai - 400007
serv ice.
Rs 97 5 to charter a jet ski for 1 0-1 5 minutes; Rs 250 for a three-
A nd ask them the rates four minute ride.
full day =8 hours
half day =4 hours 6 Sip Irish coffee at Prithv i
If y ou need a point to
point cab serv ice call up Although the management denies that there’s any liquor in the
Irish coffee, the drink is the most sought-after item on the menu
Meru Cabs: 022-44224422
of Prithv i Café, the suburban hangout of choice for
Mega Cabs: 022-42424242 theatrewallahs and telev ision actors.
Gold Cabs: 022-32443333 The Prithv i Café is an open air café hugged by gorgeous trees and
and they will pick y ou up and bamboo. The Café has 22 tables, with an approx imate seating
drop y ou any where in capacity of 92.
Café hours are Monday s: 3 pm – 1 1 :30 pmTue to Sun : 1 2:30 pm
mumbai .
– 1 1 :30 pm
Prithv i Theatre 20 Janki Kutir Juhu Church Road Mumbai 400
Just Dial is India’s no.1 local 049
search destination. It helps Box Office : +91 (22) 261 49546 Fax : +91 (22) 261 7 57 7 5
y ou get instant information Email: prithv itheatre@prithv itheatre.org
on millions of businesses and
on millions of businesses and
7 Go For a Heritage Walk around around town (Great for
thousands of products and those stay ing at Budget hotels at colaba)
serv ices.
Phone: 69999999
Web: www.justdial.com Rajabai Clock Tower
Wap: wap.justdial.com
SMS: 53999 Univ ersity Library
Bombay Univ ersity
Ov al Walk
Eros Cinema A rt deco
Custom House
Nev ille House Ballard estate
Commerce House ballard estate
Kaiser-I-hind Building
Grand Hotel
The Bombay Samachar Building
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Britannia & Co restaurant
bomonjee homarjee wadia memorial
Port House
The Roy al Bombay Seamans Society
Walk Horniman Circle Garden
Horniman Circle Garden
dinshaw building
The Heritage Mile
St Thomas Cathedral
A lice Building
dady sett Agiary fort
Walk Ballard Bunder
parsee benev olent institution
Budri Mahal
Nav sari Building
Eruchshaw building
LIC Building
Maneckji Vatcha Agiary
The Jamshetjee Nesserwanjee Petit Institute
Siddharth College
Oriental Building
Flora Fountain
Gresham A ssurance House
Dav id Sassoon
Watson's hotel now known as Esplanade Mansions
Keneseth Eliy ahoo Sy nagogue
Clock Tower
Scots Kirk
Elphinston College and univ ersity
Museum Tour
8 Build a m odel aeroplane
It takes more than a wing and a pray er to take flight. But at

Virar’s Space Apple, it takes a three-day aeromodelling camp to
help creativ e ty pes find their inner aircraft engineer.
Participants are introduced to the theory and principles of
av iation and are taught how to make models of three planes
using paper, foam and thermacole.
Ish Krupa, A gashi, Virar (W). Call on 95250-25867 64. Rs 2,500
onwards.
9 Spend tim e at the coin gallery
Numismatists will go nuts in the Chhatrapati Shiv aji Maharaj
Vastu Sanghrahalay a’s House of Lax mi coin gallery . The gallery
traces the dev elopment of money from the six th century BC to
the British era.
MG Road, Kala Ghoda (2284-451 9). Tue-Sun 1 1 am-5.30pm. Rs
1 5 for adults, Rs 300 for foreigners, Rs 5 for children 5-1 2 y ears.
10 Play cricket at Azad Maidan
If y ou can claim some part of the sprawling ground (which is

often ov errun by political meetings and protests), join
enthusiasts of all ages and sizes for a session of impromptu
cricket.
Azad Maidan, opposite CST station.
11 Eat biry ani at Delhi Darbar
Jafferbhai’s Delhi Darbar, at the bottom of the city ’s red light

district, serv es up some of the best biry ani south of the NCR.
Made from a recipe dev ised by proprietor Jafferbhai Mansuri’s
grandfather back in 1 900, the Delhi Darbar’s biry ani maintains
the same wonderful aroma and taste time after time.
Near Gulshan Cinema, Grant Road (2387 -5656). Daily 1 1 .30am-
1 2.30am.
12 See the BNHS butterflies
The wooden cupboards around entomologist Naresh

Chaturv edi’s desk at the Bombay Natural History Society contain
slim drawers that hold roughly 20,000 moths, butterflies and
winged insects labelled and mounted on support rods. The
collection cov ers 650 species, including 1 1 -inch atlas moths,
translucent Kaiser-i-Hind butterflies and a fancy turquoise-
tipped papillion from Paris.
Hornbill House, opposite Lion’s Gate, Colaba (2282-1 81 1 ).
Contact Naresh Chaturv edi for two-hour guided v iewing
sessions. School students Rs 30 (50 students minimum). Adults
Rs 1 00 (20 people minimum).
13 Watch film s at Awishkar

For the past few y ears, some of the classrooms of the New Mahim
Municipal School hav e been used as a performance space by the
theatre group Awishkar. Apart from staging play s, A wishkar has
joined forces with film groups Vikalp and The Short Circuit to
screen short films and documentaries. Cinemascoop, as the
ev ent is called, celebrated its first anniv ersary in September, and
it continues to draw small but committed crowds, despite
making them squat on the floor.
New Mahim Municipal School, Mohammed Chhotani Marg,
Mahim (W) (2444-587 1 ).
14 T ake a bit of Mum bai with y ou

The nex t time y ou’re feeling Mumbai-sick, hug a pillow with a
photograph of the Rajabai Tower. Buy tray s with water colours
of old Mumbai from Contemporary Arts and Crafts, Krsna
Mehta’s quirky kites from Good Earth, and reproductions of old
city maps and photographs from Phillips Images.
BOMBA Y by Krsna Mehta and Sangita Jindal, Good Earth,
Raghuv anshi Mills, Lower Parel (2495-1 954). Rs 800 for cushion
cov ers and watches, Rs 40,000 for canv asses. Daily 1 1 am-8pm.
Contemporary Arts & Crafts 1 9 Nepean Sea Road (2363-1 97 9).
Mon-Sat 1 1 am-8pm, Sun 1 1 am-7 pm. Rs 2,000-Rs 5,000. Phillips
Images, Colaba (2202-0564). Mon-Sat 1 0am-7 -pm.
15 T ake a leak in the heritage toilet

We’re not suggesting that y ou deface public property . Bombay
Docky ard, which allows v isitors in on a tour on the first Sunday
of ev ery month, has the country ’s only heritage toilet. Located
just inside the Bombay Castle, between the historic Bombay and
Duncan docks, the fully operational lav atory has been in use
since 1 7 50, mostly by sailors who aren’t allowed to use their
ship’s toilets when the v essels are in the harbour.
Lion’s Gate, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road.
Call 2265-57 50 for details. Only for Indians.
16 Cheer at the Cooperage

The Cooperage ground may be better known as a v enue for high-
profile weddings than for serious sports. But that shouldn’t stop
y ou from cheering for Mahindra Uniteds-in-the-making that
battle on this ground for a place in the Mumbai League.
Maharshi Karv e Road, Colaba.
17 Hang out at Hanging Garden
Until ten y ears ago, standing at the highest point of Pherozeshah

Mehta Garden opposite Kamala Nehru Park meant y ou could see
all the way to the refineries at Wadala and count each jewel on
the Queen’s Necklace on Marine Driv e. While new high-rises hav e
started to obscure two of those v iews, the garden is still the best
seat in the house for panoramic v iews of the city .
Opposite Kamala Nehru Park, Malabar Hill. Daily 1 0.30am-
6.30pm.
18 Explore the National Park

The Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Boriv ali has two lakes (Tulsi
and V ihar) and a range of wildlife, including cobras, py thons and
spotted porcupines, around 1 ,500 kinds of insects and ov er 1 50
species of butterfly . The park is also home to leopards, but y ou
may not want to get in their way , considering that since 2004,
they hav e killed ov er 60 people, mostly slum dwellers who liv e
inside the park.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Boriv ali (E) (2886-0362). Tue-Sun,
admission Rs 20; Tiger and Lion Safari Rs 30.
19 Walk through Vasai Fort

Vasai may now be just one more stop on the northern fringes of
the suburban line of the Western Railway but back in the day , the
1 600s to be precise, Vasai was where all the action was. The
birthplace of the only Indian Catholic saint, Gonsalo Garcia, and
a jewel in the Portuguese crown, Vasai fort, or Bassein as it was
then known as, was filled with impressiv e public buildings,
imposing priv ate mansions and soaring churches. Today , none
of the buildings are intact but the walls of the fort still stand and
it’s a calm spot of collapsing arches and decrepit belfries.
Take a train to Vasai on the Western Railway and a rickshaw from
the station.
20 Eat a thali in Kalbadev i

One of the best thalis y ou’ll ev er eat in Mumbai is to be found on
the first floor of an ancient building in Kalbadev i. Set up in the
early 1 940s, the Friends Union Joshi Club serv es up a delicious
Gujarat-Marwari thali that combines a salad, four v egetables and
rotis, dal, chaas and a dessert.
Friends Union Joshi Club, Kalbadev i (2205-8089). Mon-Sat
1 1 am-3pm & 7 -1 0pm; Sun 1 1 am-3pm. Rs 7 0.
21 Browse at the Asiatic Library

If y ou’v e grown up on a diet of Bolly wood mov ies, y ou might
confuse the A siatic Library for the Bombay High Court or an
assortment of city colleges but the steps of this whitewashed
building at Horniman Circle actually lead up to the city ’s largest
public library . Browse and read for free (or take a snooze in its
peaceful corridors).
Central Library , opposite Horniman Circle, Fort (2266-0956).
Mon-Sat 9.30am-6.45pm.
22 Buy Musibat Mein Mum bai

The Bhojpuri folk music form of birha has been keeping residents
of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar up-to-date about current
ev ents for centuries now. Recent bestsellers in the genre include
two v ideo-CDs entitled Musibat Mein Mumbai. Part one, released
in 2005, recounts the deluge that struck the city on July 26,
2005, while part two released earlier this y ear centres on the
bomb blasts that took place on Mumbai’s suburban trains on
July 1 1 , 2006. The quality of the music is debatable but the V CDs
are heart-felt chronicles of two of the city ’s greatest tragedies.
Av ailable at Anand Sadan, Y usuf Meher Ali Road, opposite Luv
Kush Hotel, near JB Shah Market, Masjid Bunder (2347 -91 49).
23 Find Elephanta pachy derm

Trust the Brits to complicate our liv es. Not happy to just leav e
Elephanta island alone, they had to go meddling, with the result
that lakhs of confounded tourists ev ery y ear ask their long-
suffering guides, “But where’s the elephant?” It’s at By culla Zoo.
Jijamata Udy an, By culla (237 4-21 62). Thur-Tue 1 0am-6pm. Rs
5 adults, Rs 2 children.
24 T ake a heritage cruise

Take in Fort’s neo-gothic architecture while cruising around in
the open-topped double-decker bus Neelambari. The bus
operates on weekends and begins its tour at 7 pm from the
Gateway of India. For an hour, y ou can lose y ourself in the
graceful sweep of Horniman Circle and the imposing columns of
the Asiatic Library .
Bombay Safari, Gateway of India, near Taj Mahal Hotel, Colaba
(2281 -01 39). Rs 40-90.
25 Drink beer at Janata

Janata is a regular working-class bar, like the hundreds of such
boozers that dot Mumbai. It has the same Formica benches and
tables, the menu offers similar Mangalorean and Indian-Chinese
pub grub and the alcohol too is identical. Y et, Janata has
acquired a certain cache, primarily because it’s the
quintessential Mumbai div e – ev en if it is now the spot for the
more high-brow to slum it out.
Janata, Pali Naka, Bandra (W) (2600-4049). Daily 1 0.30am-
1 .30am.
26 Offer Mother Mary a wax kidney

The wax works on offer at Bandra’s Mount Mary Church grant
pray erful wishes. Wax limbs, breasts, ey es, stomachs, spinal
cords, brains and kidney s are on sale for dev otees who offer up
relev ant parts when they pray for ailing relativ es. A parafin
computer could lamd y ou a call-centre job.
Mount Mary ’s Road, Bandra (W).
27 Chew on wada pao

Indulge in Mumbai’s iconic snack at Mama Kane’s Swatchha
Upahar Griha, the establishment that claims to hav e inv ented
India’s potato-filled answer to the hot dog.
222, Smruti-Kunj, near Dadar station, Dadar (W) (2422-1 1 61 ).
Daily 1 0am-9pm. Wada Rs 7 , wada pao Rs 8.
28 Guzzle cheap wine at Iv y

Iv y has none of that old-world hokum of zero-watt lighting,
wood panelling and leather sofas. Instead, this little bar in Worli
has brightly coloured walls, genial waiters and pretty much all
ty pes of fermented grape found in the Naray angaon area.
Bacchus would be pleased.
Indage House, Annie Besant Road, Worli (661 0-091 0). Daily
1 1 am-1 1 pm.
29 Walk along Marine Driv e

It’s Mumbai’s answer to Hav ana’s Malécon. Ev en after its freshly
installed parapets, redesigned jay walk-deterrent road div ider
and missing bhuttewalas, the walk still has goose bump-inducing
v iews of the Mumbai sky line and the A rabian Sea.
30 Learn horse riding

Instead of walking in the same place on the treadmill, try horse
riding at The Amateur Riders’ Club. The Club conducts a ten-day
course in horse riding through the y ear. The course runs from
Tue-Fri for two-and-a-half weeks. The course costs Rs 2,806
(pay ments only in cash).
Amateur Riders’ Club, Gate No 8, Mahalax mi Racecourse,
Mahalax mi (6500-5204/ office@arcmumbai.com).
31 T hrow party atop a bus

The Brihanmumbai Electrical Supply and Transport Undertaking
allows y ou to hire a bus by the kilometre, which y ou can take as
far and fast as BEST buses go. Y ou could take the MTDC’s tourism
bus Neelambari (see entry number 23), a red open-top double-
decker, a double-decker or a single-deck bus. Ev en though
eating, drinking or play ing music on the bus is frowned upon, the
scheme is popular for birthday parties.
Call 241 8-6346. Rs 60 per kilometre, with a minimum charge of
Rs 2,400. Waiting charges Rs 1 7 5 per hour. Open-deck and
double-decker seat 7 9 people, single-decker seats 50. No guide
prov ided.
32 Eat ay urv edic food

Swadshakti is probably Mumbai’s only ay urv edic restaurant,
where a chunk of the menu is dedicated to detox ify ing
“panchakarma” dishes. The lack of spice in the dishes may take
some getting used to, but the palate is disciplined, the flav ours of
the healing herbs that the restaurant uses liberally – ginger,
garlic and fenugreek, among others – will emerge more strongly .
Swadshakti, Bhadran Nagar Cross Road 2, opposite Milap
theatre, Malad (W) (2806-57 57 ). Daily 1 0am-1 0pm.
33 Go flam ingo spotting

Mumbai’s mudflats at Sewri Bay hav e been hosting ov er 20,000
liv e flamingos between Nov ember and May ev ery y ear since
1 994. Early mornings, between high and low tides, are good
times to spot the birds. Birdwatchers will also be able to spot
gulls, terns and waders among the pink-feathered flamingos.
Near Colgate factory and Sewri Jetty , Sewri.
34 Gorge on Sarv i’s kebabs

Sarv i in Nagpada has been serv ing up the most tender seekhs
since the 1 930s, when it was frequented by Urdu writers and
poets.
Zuber Sofia Road, opposite Nagpada Police Station, Nagpada
Junction (98335-33305). Daily 5am-1 2.30am. Seekh kebabs Rs
24.
35 Dance with Ganpati

Among the hundreds of processions that throng the Haji Ali
waterfront, the Dance with Ganesh truck is one of the biggest. It’s
a trippy laser show, 20,000 watts of pure sound and gallons of
bhang all rolled into one. On Sept 25 this y ear, the final day of
the Ganesh festiv al, organisers DJs Asad and Hussain will play
house, trance and assorted electronic sounds 2pm onwards from
Mahalax mi temple to the Worli immersion site.
36 Participate in the bird race

The Mumbai Bird Race inv olv es spotting and recording as many
birds as possible on a single day . Initiated in 2005 by naturalist
Sunjoy Monga, the race takes groups of amateur and v eteran
enthusiasts into Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the Tulsi and Vihar
lake areas and Karnala bird sanctuary . Bird sightings are
recorded ov er a 1 2-hour period using binoculars, av ian
catalogues, hawkey ed team members and sheer luck.
See www.indiabirdraces.com.
37 Listen to m usic at Banganga

The Banganga tank in Walkeshwar is surrounded by Hindu
temples on all sides. It’s worth a v isit any time of y ear but in
January or February the area boasts an added attraction: the
Hindustani classical music festiv al organised by the Maharashtra
Tourism Dev elopment Corporation to raise funds for the
preserv ation of the ancient site.
Banganga Tank, Walkeshwar (2202-1 843).
38 Shop to m ake a difference

Giv e something back to Mumbai before y ou leav e by shopping
for souv enirs that will help local charities. A t the Women’s India
Trust, the ethnic-print bed sheets, quilts and curtains, table
ware, soft toy s, jams, chutney s, letter writing sets and paper
bags help unskilled and disadv antaged women. At the Life Trust,
proceeds from coasters, table mats, framed artworks, greeting
cards, bags and mouse pads go towards the support of phy sically
and mentally challenged patients. At the Y usuf Meherally
Centre, Warli-themed hand-painted T shirts, purses and bags
help Adiv asi women and children from Thane v illages.
Welfare of Stray Dogs sells T-shirts, bags, mugs, caps, tray s,
notebooks, photo albums and photo frames along with canine
products like towels and collars, pillows and bedding to fund
sterilisation driv es, rabies immunisation projects and healthcare
and adoption of street dogs. At A kanksha, rev enue from paper
gift bags, craft and hobby kits, folders, wrapping paper and
jigsaw puzzles help educate underpriv ileged children.
Akanksha, Chinchpokli (237 0-0253).
Life Trust, Worli (2491 -0287 , 2491 -0288).
Welfare of Stray Dogs, Mahalax mi (237 3- 3433).
Women’s India Trust, Mahim (2446-2506). Y usuf Meherally
Centre, Gamdev i (2380-5059).
39 Feed the cows at Panjrapole

Bhuleshwar Road is ex otic India at its finest – temples, eager-
ey ed shop owners, the thick smell of incense, flowers, puffed rice
and cows. At the end of this road, howev er, is a pukka Mumbai
ex perience that y ou’re unlikely to find in other cities. If y ou
make y our way past the stalls selling temple bric-a-brac, y ou’ll
find y ourself facing a massiv e, light-green arched doorway . This
leads y ou to the Bombay Panjrapole trust, started by the
philanthropist Sir Jamshetjee Jeejeebhoy for the welfare of
cows. Inside the Panjrapole stand bev ies of bov ine beauties who
munch the grass y ou offer them as though they ’re doing y ou a
fav our. This is the oldest of fiv e cowsheds run by the 1 7 0-y ear-
old trust.
Madhav wadi, CP Tank.
40 Listen to qawwalis at Haji Ali
Sikandar Shad sits serenely four times a week at the Haji Ali
shrine. One of the most well-known qawwals of Mumbai, Shaad
performs at the dargah and has been associated with the
enigmatic world of the qawwali for the past 50 y ears.
Four ev enings a week, Sikandar Shad and his group of musicians
ensure that v isitors pray ing at the Haji A li get a good dose of
qawwal as they watch the sun set.
Haji Ali, Lala Lajpat Rai Road. Sun, Mon, Thur, Fri, 4-8.30pm.
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41 Clim b Mazagaon Hill

Joseph Baptista Gardens is one of the few parks in the city
perched atop a hill. The 1 26-y ear-old park, known locally as
Mazagaon Hill, includes a jogging track, a children’s area, a
senior citizens’ corner, a study centre, fountains, a temple cut
out of the rocks and a fabulous v iew of the harbour.
Joseph Baptista Gardens, Mazagaon. Daily 7 am-9pm.
42 Catch a m usic gig

Not Just Jazz by the Bay is the sole surv iv or on a street once
lined with restaurants that in the 1 960s each hosted their own
jazz band. It features liv e acts from Wednesday through
Saturday . The performers include college bands and a few
originals, stalwarts from the city ’s ’60s and ’7 0s pop-rock scene
such as the Elv is-channelling Gary Lawy er and sari-clad div a
Usha Uthup, in addition to local jazz legends such as Jazzy “Joe”
Pereira.
Soona Mahal, opposite The Ambassador Hotel, 1 43 Marine Driv e
(2285-1 87 6).
43 Hav e pao bhaji at Sardar

Ex pect up to 50gm of A mul butter in y our plate of pao bhaji. But
don’t let the butter scare y ou away . The signature dish at Sardar
in Tardeo may be all wrong for dieters, but clearly does a lot
right for the palate.
Tardeo Road Junction, Tardeo (2353-0208). Daily 1 1 am-2am.
Rs 47 .
44 Ride the longest bus route
Rs 22 buy s y ou a ride on bus route 524 Ltd – the longest route

on the BEST network – from beginning to end. Ply ing between
Boriv ali Station (E) and V ashi, the bus cov ers 44 km ov er
roughly an hour and 45 minutes.
Buses leav e ev ery 1 7 minutes from Boriv ali Station (E) and
Sector 26 in Vashi. See www.bestundertaking.com.
45 Chill out at the am phitheatre
Below the ramparts of the Bandra fort is one of the most under-
used performance spaces in Mumbai. The amphitheatre comes
to life only a few times a y ear, mainly during the Prithv i Theatre
Festiv al in Nov ember and the Jazz Utsav a few weeks later.
Bandra Fort, Bandra (W). Call Prithv i Theatre on 261 4-9546.
46 Get a role as a m ov ie extra
If y ou’re American, Australian or European and want a bit role

in a Hindi film before fly ing out, head to Leopold’s Café in Colaba.
This watering hole for tourists is the biggest talent pool for
agents looking for candidates to play decadent Westerners in the
mov ies.
Leopold’s Café, Colaba (2202-01 31 ). Daily 7 .30am-midnight.
47 Eat at Anant Ashram

The East Indian neighbourhood of Khotachiwadi is famous for its
charming homes and A nant A shram – a seafood lov er’s idea of
heav en. Try the surmai fry , teesry a (mussels) and prawn curry .
Gaiwadi, Girgaum. Mon-Sat noon-2pm & 7 -9pm.
48 Get a picture with a film star

A few minutes away from Alfred Cinema in Grant Road are three
photo studios that can giv e y ou y our moment of glory with the
likes of Rani Mukherji, Salman Khan and the eternal fav ourite
Shah Rukh Khan, albeit in their ply wood cutout av atars. Which
cutout is in greatest demand depends on which star has a hit film
at the moment.
Tamanna Studio, opposite Nishat Cinema, 296, Maulana Shaukat
Ali Road, Grant Road. Bombay Photo Centre, 227 Maulana
Shaukat Ali Road, Grant Road.
49 See snakes being squeezed

Watch the snakes hav ing the v enom wrung out of them at Parel’s
Haffkine Institute, which has a farm that houses the most
common species of Indian poisonous snakes.
Haffkine Institute for Training Research and Testing, Parel
(241 6-0947 ).
50 Join a m usic circle
Mumbai may be known to many as Bolly wood but it’s also the
country ’s Hindustani classical music capital. From Kishori
Amonkar to Zakir Hussain, almost ev ery major classical maestro
has a Mumbai connection. Joining a music circle that organises
concerts ev ery fortnight is a great way to get familiar with
present and future stars.
Bhav an’s Cultural Centre, A ndheri (W) (3293-801 7 ) and
Karnataka Sangha, Matunga (W) (2437 -7 022).www.bcca.in
51 Marv el at m iniatures
Browse through the Chhatrapati Shiv aji V astu Sangrahalay a’s

miniatures of Mughal kings lux uriating in palaces and Krishna
swanning around gardens with his gopis.
Chhatrapati Shiv aji V astu Sangrahalay a, Kala Ghoda (2284-
451 9). Tue-Sun 1 1 am-5.30pm. Rs 1 5 for adults, Rs 300 for
foreigners, Rs 5 for children below 1 2 y ears.
52 Bargain for bras
The lingerie stores at Crawford Market are packed with randy

twenty somethings who guess y our size – correctly – before y ou
can. There are bargains to be had if y ou don’t mind the stares.
Crawford Market. Mon-Sat.
53 Buy a sola topi
Once upon a time, stiff upper-lipped Raj officials brav ed the

summer in stiff sola topis, or pith helmets. These lightweight hats
made of cork or pith (a plant known in the subcontinent as
shola), were cov ered with cloth to shade the wearer’s head from
the sun. They also had small holes for v entilation. Today , a sola
topi is not just an ingenious way to beat the heat but also a
Mumbai souv enir. A trail would lead y ou to Jabbar’s, a hat shop
in Mangaldas Lane near Crawford Market. A lthough the store
still supplies sola topis on demand, production has dwindled.
“We still make them, but there are hardly any craftsmen left who
make these caps as it requires a special process,” said A rshad
Jabbar, who has run the store since 1 927 .
Jabbar’s, Dwarkadas Building No 2, Mangaldas Road, Crawford
Market (6631 -7 021 /6636-461 1 ). Rs 550.
54 Snooze at the Sassoon Library
If y ou happen to be in Kala Ghoda and in need of a post-lunch

nap, head to the row of planter’s chairs that lines the first floor
deck of the Dav id Sassoon Library . They ’re more comfortable
than first-class airline seats.
Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda, Colaba (2284-37 03). Daily
8am-9pm.
55 Visit the Chinese T em ple
General Kwan Tai Kon cuts an imposing figure on the gilt altar in
Mumbai’s only Chinese temple. Worshippers usually come
during Chinese New Y ear.
Nawab Tank Road, Mazagaon.
56 Cheer at a kushti m atch
Watch wrestlers clad in loincloths grapple on red mud at one of

the last surv iv ing akhadas or wrestling centres. Y oung punters
are put through a punishing schedule of push-ups, running and
mallakhamb to prepare them for the rigours of wrestling.
Shree Samartha Vy ay am Mandir, PL Kale Guruji Marg, off
Gokhale Road, Dadar (W) (2430-6258).
57 Eat street food at a khau galli
Pick from batatawadas, pudlas and other innov ations that y ou

get only on Mumbai’s streets, such as the Schezwan dosa. Wash
these down with the medley of fruit and ice-cream called “fruit
slad”.
Third A giary Lane, Zav eri Bazaar. Also at New Marine Lines.
58 Buy fish at Ferry Wharf
Early each morning, v ast quantities of fish are sold to retailers

and hoteliers at the market at Ferry Wharf in Docky ard Road.
Work starts at around 5.30am and is at its peak by 7 am. Surmai,
rawas, small sharks, waam, phalai, popat, rani and singhada
(catfish) are among the v arieties sold here. By around 9am, it’s
all ov er ex cept for the shouting.
Ferry Wharf, Docky ard Road, Mazgaon.
59 Munch idlis at Café Madras
The idlis at Café Madras are probably the best y ou’ll ev er get
outside of a south Indian home in Mumbai. The restaurant’s
recipe shuns the Shetty -sty le rice grits in fav our of the pricier
but more flav ourful urad dal, uses old-school slow steamers to
retain moisture and tex ture and serv es up its idlis with sambar,
home-made butter and mulagapudi.
King’s Circle, Matunga (2401 -441 9). Tue-Sun 7 am-2.30pm,
4pm-1 1 pm. Rs 1 3.
60 Catch the Prithv i Festiv al
In Nov ember, Juhu’s Prithv i Theatre turns into a v enue for one
of the most anticipated ev ents on the city ’s cultural calendar.
Prithv i’s annual drama festiv al usually hinges on a theme: this
y ear, it’s musicals.
Prithv i Theatre 20 Janki Kutir Juhu Church Road Mumbai 400
049
Box Office : +91 (22) 261 49546 Fax : +91 (22) 261 7 57 7 5
Email: prithv itheatre@prithv itheatre.org
61 Belt out karaoke at Soul Fry
Unleash y our inner Sinatra at Monday night karaoke at the

Bandra branch of the Goan restaurant Soul Fry . The ev ening sees
locals attempt to outcroon each other with their church choir-
honed v ocal chops.
Pali Market, Bandra (W) (2604-6892). Mon 9.30pm onwards.
62 Sip beer at Sea View
From the outside, Sea V iew barely shows any signs of life. But
hidden within is a gem of a restaurant. Pork chilly fry , potato
chips (not French fries) and onion bhajia go beautifully with
beer, which is the only alcohol av ailable.
Hotel Sea View, Juhu Tara Road, Juhu Beach, (2660-5942). Daily
9am-1 1 .30pm.
63 Host an IT DC guest
“Atithi dev o bhav ah” (guests are godlike), say s a some dusty
Sanskrit tex t and the Indian Tourism Dev elopment Corporation.
The ITDC has compiled a list of people who hav e offered a room
in their house as paid accommodation for tourists. Whether
y ou’re looking for a place to stay or feeling like spreading the
lov e in accordance to our ancient traditions, get with the
programme.
Contact ITDC on 2203-31 44 to join the list of hosts or email
indiatourism@v snl.com for the list of pay ing guest
accommodations.
64 Gatecrash an art opening
If it’s the end of the week, approx imately sev en o’clock and y ou
notice some loiterers around Kala Ghoda, then y ou could be on
y our way to a free drink. Most prev iews are held on Thursday s
and Friday s. While the wine may not be fine, it won’t be
undrinkable either. No one checks inv itations.
65 Listen to Hindi film songs
Sargam, an informal association of music lov ers, takes Hindi film

music lov ers on a Bolly wood flashback ev ery month at its
listening sessions. They ’re free and open to all.
Call on 2446-5983.
66 Star-gaze at the planetarium
It’s still not too late to rev isit the planetarium and refresh y our
scientific knowledge through such enthralling shows as Wonders
of the Univ erse, Hide & Seek in the Sky and A wesome Univ erse.
Nehru Planetarium, Worli (2492-051 0). Rs 35 per adult, Rs 20
per child (age 4-1 2). . Booking 1 1 am-1 .45pm & 2.30-5pm.
67 Buy an Indian rock album
Check out the latest in the local rock and metal scene at music
instrument shop Furtado’s in Dhobitalao. From the newest
release by Indi-rock stalwarts Pentagram to upcoming death
metal bands, it’s the best way to sample what campuses are
headbanging to.
BX Furtado & Sons, Jer Mahal, Dhobi Talao (2201 -31 05). Mon-
Sat 1 0am-7 .30pm.
68 Watch a play in a garden
Watching the right play in the leafy env irons of Horniman Circle
Garden can be an enchanting ex perience. Take Manoj Shah’s
musical Master Phoolmani, which had audiences screaming for
encores at the end of three hours when it was staged a y ear ago.
Horniman Circle Garden, Fort. Call Prithv i Theatre on 261 4-
9546.
69 Rev olv e and eat
Here’s a new spin on dinner. In 90 minutes, while y ou work on

y our crispy crab rolls and tofu with bak choy at Pearl of the
Orient,
the city whirls under y our feet. Don’t blame y our stiff drink.
Mumbai’s only rev olv ing restaurant spins under the gentle
power of a two HP engine, with v iews of the Queen’s Necklace,
Brabourne and Wankhede stadia and the stock ex change.
Ambassador Hotel, Churchgate (2204-1 1 31 ). Daily 1 2.30-
2.45pm & 7 .30-1 1 .30pm.
7 0 Pray at the actors’ tem ple
Situated diagonally across from the ISKCON temple, the

Mukteshwara temple is regarded as the shrine where all
Bolly wood aspirations come true. The sev en-storey ed temple
houses ov er 1 30 deities, from Vishnu with ten faces to Buddha.
Mukteshwara temple, Juhu. Mon-Sat 7 am-midnight. Sun 7 am-
1 pm, 4pm-midnight.
7 1 Be the hero in a m ov ie poster

Alway s pictured y ourself in a great Bolly wood romance? A rm

y ourself with y our photograph and call one of the artists below.
They will source the poster of any mov ie y ou wish to star in and
paint y ou into y our own tragic saga in a couple of day s.
Call Durgadutt Pandey on 981 93-467 7 5 or Arv ind Chudasama
on 98208-7 67 07 . Rs 8,000-Rs 1 2,000, depending on size.
7 2 Clink with m odels at Oliv e
It’s suburban Mumbai’s fav ourite bar, whether it’s the

margaritas that tempt y ou or the lissom ladies nursing their
margaritas. Thursday nights are as glitzy as it gets.
Oliv e, Khar (2605-8228). Mon-Sat (8.30pm-1 .30am). Sun
brunch serv ice too.
7 3 Show up on Page 3
The simplest way to get onto the party pages is to make a quick
pay ment to the friendly folk at Medianet, the public relations
wing of the Times of India. A n ex cel spreadsheet will tell y ou the
ex act price of appearing in their newspaper, depending upon
how many times y ou want to show up and how many inches y ou
want to take up.
Call Medianet Times Group on 227 3-5483.
7 4 Stroll along Juhu beach
Now that bhelpuri stalls and horses are back where they belong,
Juhu beach finally has a stretch that lets y ou enjoy a solitary
walk. Now if only they ’d clean up the water.
Juhu beach, Juhu.
7 5 Pole dance
Unleash the Pussy cat Doll in y ou by enrolling in a Dare & Bare

class at Gold’s Gy m on Nepean Sea Road. Anchored by fitness
instructor Shilpa Rane, the class teaches a v ariety of tricks from
the sex trade – striptease, lap dancing and pole dancing – which
will help y ou shed y our inhibitions for good. Ov er a one-hour
class, ex pect to go through basic butt mov es, hip rolls, a slinky
catwalk, deep dips and a squat that doesn’t quit. Perform all of
those mov es on stilettos and y ou are likely to hav e an intensiv e
workout for y our thigh and leg muscles as well.
Dare & Bare pole dancing classes, Gold’s Gy m, near Chandralok,
Nepean Sea Road, (98331 -037 1 0). Tue and Thur 7 -8pm. Rs
2,400 plus tax es for eight sessions, plus Rs 500 for enrolment.
7 6 Feast on T rishna’s crabs
This world-famous butter pepper garlic crab has been featured in

sev eral international publications. The bib allows y ou to drool
ev en if y ou aren’t quite kissable for a while.
Sai Baba Marg, Fountain (227 0-321 5). Price as per size, Rs 550
for medium to Rs 1 ,250 for jumbo. Mon-Sat noon-3.30pm, 6pm-
midnight. Sun noon-3.30pm, 7 pm-midnight.
7 7 Scribble on Ghetto’s walls
Get v ery drunk. Hug y our friends. Get the permanent marker
from Prakash at the cash counter. Look for an empty spot on the
wall. Write how much y ou lov e Mumbai, y our friends, Ghetto,
beer, life and this song they ’re play ing. Add some abuse and
beer-induced wisdom. Repeat.
Nex t to Mahalakshmi Temple, Bhulabhai Desai Road,
Mahalakshmi (2351 -5537 ).
7 8 Kiss under a giant heart
Don’t leav e the city before showing y our lov e inside a huge
heart. There’s a giant one at the Nehru Science Centre, complete
with aorta and pulmonary what-nots. Entry and ex it is through a
v entricle.
Dr E Moses Road, Worli (2493-4520). Daily 1 0.30am - 6.30pm.
Rs 20.
7 9 Shop at the Strand Book Fair
If y ou’re in the city in January or September, make a pilgrimage

to the Strand book fair, ev ery Mumbaikar’s fav ourite hunting
ground for bargains on books.
Call on 2208-61 03 for dates and timings.
80 See art at the Grand Hy att
Once y ou’re done with y our lunch or dinner, stroll through the
lobby of the Grand Hy att. Curated by Rajeev Sethi and themed
around the Shiv a-Shakti my thology , the hotel has brought
together artwork by prominent artists, including A tul Dodiy a,
Sudarshan Shetty and Riy as Komu.
Grand Hy att, Off Western Ex press Highway , Santa Cruz (E)
(667 6-1 234).
81 Go bug spotting
If y ou see beauty in cockroaches, then the Insect Lov ers Group

is right up y our alley . But first, y ou hav e to join the
entomological course conducted by the Bombay Natural History
Society . Members trade information and periodically go on field
trips.
Call V Shubhalax mi on 2842-1 1 7 4.
82 Ride a giant wheel

The ten-day long Mahim fair, held in honour of Muslim saint
Maqdoom Mahimi in the tenth month of the Muslim calendar,
has plenty to offer. Catch the magic show, the wheel of death and
the woman with the magical feet. Plus, there are no less than
eight giant wheels to choose from.
Opposite St Michael’s Church, Mahim (W).
83 Be gay at Voodoo
There’s not an ostrich feather or tiara in sight. Instead y ou find
men in muscle T-shirts grinding to Bolly wood hits. Giv en the
testosterone in the air, V oodoo is a slightly disconcerting
ex perience at first. But nov elty wears off after the first ten
minutes and y ou ev en contemplate elbowing y our way through
heav ing pecs to get on the dance floor.
Voodoo, 2/5 Kamal Mansion, Arthur Bunder Road, Colaba
(2284-1 959).
84 Rant at T he Speaker’s Corner
Lash out at the gov ernment, campaign for the legalisation of

marijuana, adv ocate animal rights, fight for public nudity or
whatev er it is that’s got y our goat at Mumbai’s own v ersion of
Hy de Park’s Speaker’s Corner. A board in Vashi’s Sagar V ihar
Park encourages people to speak on any subject of their choice
between sev en and eight in the morning and the ev ening. The
only condition is that people can’t use loudspeakers or mikes.
Built by the City and Industrial Dev elopment Corporation of
Maharashtra, Sagar V ihar Park also allows musical performances
between six and sev en in the morning and the ev ening.
Sagar V ihar Park, Sector 7 , Vashi.
85 Dev our a div ine brownie
If heav en were to take the form of a dessert, it would come in the

shape of a Theobroma chocolate chip brownie. The brownie is
rich y et light and each bite is packed with the dense cocoa
niblets.
Cusrow Baug Shop No 24, Colaba Causeway (6529-2929). Daily
8.30am-1 2.30am. Rs 30.
86 Play beach football at Juhu

Feel free to showboat y our scissor kick to the locals who gather
early in the morning and before the sun goes down for a kick off.
Juhu beach, Vile Parle (W).
87 Find the Fort wall
For those who still don’t believ e that the Fort area past CST gets
its name from an actual citadel, the eastern boundary wall of St
George’s Hospital should come as a surprise. The last stone
fragments of the walled city that ex isted till 1 864 stand as proof
of the time By culla, Malabar Hill, Mazagaon and Parel formed the
suburbs and Bandra housed holiday homes for the wealthy .
St George’s Hospital, behind General Post Office, P D’Mello Road,
Fort.
88 Visit the Mum badev i tem ple
Pay y our respects to the patron goddess of the Kolis, Mumbai’s

first inhabitants. The temple doors are made of silv er and its
railings are filled with coins shov ed in by worshippers who want
their wishes fulfilled.
Mumbadev i Road, near Zav eri Bazaar. Daily 5am-noon, 4-8pm.
89 Stay at the T aj for a day
Residents of the Taj Mahal Hotel get to hang out and sip
champagne by the swimming pool. If y ou’re feeling suitably
bubbly , y ou could slip into the indiv idual beach chair-shaped
Jacuzzis in full-serv ice spa.
Taj Mahal Hotel, Colaba (6665-0300).
Rs 23,500 for a single-occupancy lux ury room and up to Rs
31 ,000 for a Taj Club category double occupancy room, plus 1 0
per cent tax .
90 Sway to m usic at a bandstand
Ev ery Saturday and Sunday in the cool months, y ou can catch

the Brihanmumbai Mahanagar Palika Suraksha Dal Band, also
known as the BMC Band, performing in bandstands in public
parks and gardens across the city . The set list is a mix ed bag:
Hindi film songs, koligeet, Scottish marches, patriotic tunes, and
ev en a bit of Beethov en and Mozart. They also take requests.
Call SM Kamble on 2596-5257 for the schedule. Performances
begin from October.
91 Hike up to the Kanheri cav es

Boriv ali’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park houses the Kanheri cav es.
The 1 09 cav es contain rock figures of Buddha and his
Boddhisattv as sculpted during the Maury an and Kushan empires
of the first century BC.
See no 1 8 for address. Tue-Sun. Rs 20.
92 See Jehangir’s firm an
One of the gems in the Alpaiwalla Museum in a firman, or letter

of recognition, written by Mughal emperor Jehangir in 1 61 8.
The firman was a reward for Chandji Kamdin and his nephew
Hoshang Ranji for the hospitality they showed the monarch in
Nav sari. FD Alpaiwalla Museum, Khareghat Memorial Hall,
Khareghat Colony , NS Patkar Marg, Hughes Road (2361 -6586).
Mon-Fri 1 0.30am-1 .30pm, 2.30-5.30pm.
93 Get y our portrait m ade
The students and other struggling artists that dot the Pav ement
Gallery outside Jehangir A rt Gallery are ready , eager and willing
to indulge y our narcissism.
Pav ement Gallery , Kala Ghoda.
94 Learn Bolly wood dance
Shake it like Madhuri, mov e like Mithun. It’s only a few dance
classes away .
Shiamak Dav ar’s Institute for Performing Arts (2353-7 930), A rts
in Motion Dance Studio (98201 -83231 ), RG’S Company of Dance
(93221 -82023).
CONTA CT US
Shiamak Dav ar's Institute for the Performing Arts
Circle of Light
Shiamak Dav ar's Media & Entertainment (P) Ltd.
Head Office - Mumbai

C-1 9, Ev erest, J. Dadaji Road, Tardeo,
Mumbai 400 034.
India
Tel: + 91 22 23537 930 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7

Fax : + 91 22 2352 061 8
Email: info@shiamak.com
Arts In Motion Dance Studio

39, TV Chidambaran Marg,
Sion (E), Mumbai - 400 022.
Mobile: + 91 -98201 83231
+ 91 - 98203 80009
Email: artsinmotion@gmail.com
artsinmotion_a@rediffmail.com
95 Attend a passion play
Holy Week, as Catholics know the sev en day s from Palm Sunday ,
sees the unfolding of a series of ancient pre-Easter tableaux in
Bandra’s St A ndrew’s Church that are known as Santos Passos, or
Passion Play s.
St A ndrew’s Church, Hill Road, Bandra (W).
96 Ride in the oldest elev ator
One of the city ’s few surv iv ing hy draulic lifts can be found in
Nav sarri Building in Fort. Said to be the oldest elev ator in
Mumbai, the lift is wood-panelled and operated using a
crankshaft.
Nav sarri Building, DN Road, Fort.
Nav sari Building, 240, Dr. D.N. Road, Fort, Mumbai-400 001
97 Read books on Mum bai

Care to read Sir Dinshaw Wacha’s thoughts on the city in the
period between 1 860 and 1 87 5? Try ing to locate back issues of
Bombay magazine? A lmost ev ery thing y ou want to know about
Mumbai is in the Indian Merchants’ Chamber’s Bombay City
Corner.
Bombay City Corner, Indian Merchants’ Chamber,
Location and T im ings
T he library is situated at:
Resham Bhav an,
3rd Floor,
7 8, V eer Nariman Road,
Behind Churchgate Station,
Mumbai-400 020. It is open to the public from 1 0.00 a.m. to
5.45 p.m.. Monday to Friday , and 1 0.00 a.m. To 1 .45 p.m.. on
Saturday (ex cept on 2nd & 4th Saturday s).
98 Sing bhajans to m otor beats
Y ou don’t need to use y our ey es to find Gujarati saint Jalaram

Bappa’s tiny shrine on Bhuleshwar Road. Y our ears will get y ou
there. For its ev ening puja, Bappa’s temple play s the drums,
cy mbals, brass bells and ghungroos – all without a single
musician. They hav e a nifty little contraption that hooks up the
instruments to a motor and play s them simultaneously , keeping
preset beats and rhy thms. The machine was a gift from a dev otee
two y ears ago.
Jalaram Bappa Mandir, Bhuleshwar Road, off Kalbadev i Road.
Daily 7 pm.
99 T rail Am bedkar
The father of the Indian Constitution composed the document

sitting at the café formerly known as The Way side Inn in Kala
Ghoda. But since that no longer ex ists, y ou can pay y our
respects at the Bombay Improv ement Trust chawls, where
Ambedkar liv ed as he went to school, started his practice and
raised a family . Mov e on to his office at Damodar Hall in Parel,
where he began his career by founding the Bahishkrit Kitkarni
Sabha. Hang out at Rajgriha, the home he built for himself at
Dadar Hindu Colony . Finally , v isit Siddharth College in Fort,
which he founded in 1 946.
BIT Chawl, room 50-51 , near Parel fly ov er, Parel (E). Damodar
Hall Parel Naka, near Parel fly ov er, Parel (E). Rajagriha, Dadar
Hindu Colony , opposite Raja Shiv aji High School, Dadar (E).
Siddharth College of Arts, Science and Commerce, PT Marg, Fort.
100 Eat offal dishes
Ling’s Pav ilion does an ex cellent chilled pork aspic (pork fat with
bits of pig ears), the stalls outside Minara Masjid serv e heart
masala and Noor Mohammadi at Bhendi Bazaar is famous for its
nalli nihari or bone marrow.
Lings Pavilion, off Colaba Causeway , Colaba . Noor Mohamadi,

1 7 9 Wazir Building, A bdul Hakim Noor Mohammadi Chowk,
Bhendi Bazaar
Landsdowne Rd Behind Regal Cinema Mumbai 400 001 Tel:
+92 22 2282 4533/2285 0023
Tucked into a street off Colaba Causeway, this tastefully

decorated restaurant with split-level seating has enough
nooks and corners to make an exc ellent choice for a private
business lunch or dinner. Lings sticks to a basic, but vastly
effec tive formula, with fabulous, good-value food and
pleasing service. Our beef in black bean pepper sauc e was
tender, the prawns fresh, and the stew in a pot was tangy
and had plenty of crunchy vegetables.
101 Visit Japanese grav es
Behind Worli’s Nipponzan My ohoji or Japanese temple is a little-

known cemetery that houses the ashes of Japanese prostitutes
and other Japanese immigrants. The cemetery has two stupas, a
shrine and a house.
Hindu Shamshan Bhoomi, behind Japanese temple, E Moses
Road, Worli
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101 Things To See and Do in Mumbai Bombay

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1/3/2010 101 things to see and do in mumbai b…

MUMBAI READY RECKONER

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2 Gape outside Mannat and Jalsa and Galax y

Address: Shah Rukh Khan’s Mannat, Band Stand, Bandra

Address: Salm an Khan 3 Galax y A partments BJ Road, Bandra

HI S T O R Y O F M UM B A I Address:Am itabh Bachchan Pratiksha, 1 0th Rd,J.V.P.D.

Bombay Univ ersity

Eros Cinema A rt deco

Nev ille House Ballard estate

Commerce House ballard estate

The Bombay Samachar Building

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai

Britannia & Co restaurant

bomonjee homarjee wadia memorial

The Roy al Bombay Seamans Society

Walk Horniman Circle Garden

Horniman Circle Garden

The Heritage Mile

dady sett Agiary fort

parsee benev olent institution

Nav sari Building

Maneckji Vatcha Agiary

The Jamshetjee Nesserwanjee Petit Institute

Gresham A ssurance House

Watson's hotel now known as Esplanade Mansions

Keneseth Eliy ahoo Sy nagogue

Elphinston College and univ ersity

8 Build a m odel aeroplane

It takes more than a wing and a pray er to take flight. But at

9 Spend tim e at the coin gallery

Numismatists will go nuts in the Chhatrapati Shiv aji Maharaj

10 Play cricket at Azad Maidan

If y ou can claim some part of the sprawling ground (which is

11 Eat biry ani at Delhi Darbar

Jafferbhai’s Delhi Darbar, at the bottom of the city ’s red light

12 See the BNHS butterflies

The wooden cupboards around entomologist Naresh

13 Watch film s at Awishkar

14 T ake a bit of Mum bai with y ou

15 T ake a leak in the heritage toilet

16 Cheer at the Cooperage

17 Hang out at Hanging Garden

Until ten y ears ago, standing at the highest point of Pherozeshah

18 Explore the National Park

19 Walk through Vasai Fort

20 Eat a thali in Kalbadev i

21 Browse at the Asiatic Library

22 Buy Musibat Mein Mum bai

23 Find Elephanta pachy derm

24 T ake a heritage cruise

25 Drink beer at Janata

26 Offer Mother Mary a wax kidney

27 Chew on wada pao

28 Guzzle cheap wine at Iv y

29 Walk along Marine Driv e

30 Learn horse riding

31 T hrow party atop a bus

32 Eat ay urv edic food

33 Go flam ingo spotting

34 Gorge on Sarv i’s kebabs

35 Dance with Ganpati