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irani chai,mumbai: March 2014
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Remembering B. Merwan in 16 minutes, 25 seconds : Brun. Atul Sabharwal's fine short film Brun documents daily life at Grant Road's B. Merwan cafe as it was in 2005. The film's firepower is about to double with news that Boman and Soroush Nazrabadi will close the landmark Grant Road café next month. Take a look at Atul's film, and remember. You can almost taste the chai when you watch Brun! An evocative piece Atul wrote for us in 2007 on making the film can be found. With thanks to Atul! Cafe De La Paix.
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irani chai,mumbai: My B. MERWAN diary. .
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My B MERWAN diary. . My feet slowed down. My eyes went around. And everything for the next one hour happened in slow motion. It was as if I had walked through the doors of a time-machine. Straight into 1914. It was a godforsaken overcast day in 2002. That was my second year in. Before that I had been writing for Gentleman. Magazine of the Indian Express. I had known another writer/contributor and aspiring screenwriter, Rohit Gupta. Rohit used to live in. A few minutes later we entered B. Merwan. There mi...
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irani chai,mumbai: January 2012
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An upcoming exhibition : January 14 to 20. Mumbai artist Gautam Benegal - whose work on Irani Cafes was featured here back in. Will be exhibiting his work at COOL CHEF CAFE, Worli Village, from January 14 to 20. Here Gautam shares with Irani Chai, Mumbai the mainspring behind his work on Irani cafes. For when all is said and done, and vision obscured, tastebuds dulled, and flesh demeaned by age, we are but the sum total of our memories. There is no greater sadness than the collective Alzheimer's of a...
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irani chai,mumbai: May 2014
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B Merwan, Grant Road : staying open, for now. That's right, Grant Road's iconic B. Merwan is not closing down, just doing some maintenance we are told. So the cafe is staying open, at least for now. And that's good news! IMAGE : B. Merwan, Grant Road, 2014. Photographer INDRANIL MUKHERJEE,. 169; INDRANIL MUKHERJEE. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What are the stories of the families who started them, and what are your recollections of time spent at your favourite Irani? View my complete profile.
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irani chai,mumbai: Ritesh Batra and Poetic License embrace Mumbai's Irani cafes
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Ritesh Batra and Poetic License embrace Mumbai's Irani cafes. Ritesh Batra, director of hit flick Lunchbox. Says he is out to save Mumbai’s Irani cafes. Those that are still left, anyhow. To that end his production company – known as Poetic License. 8211; will be hosting events at Irani cafes from time to time. The first event was held at Ali and Aamir Irani’s landmark Café Koolar at Kings Circle. Events at Kyani in Dhobi Talao and Café Excelsior in Fort followed soon after. More info here :. Cosmopolita...
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irani chai,mumbai: February 2012
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We have been really saddened by the news this week of the unexpected passing of Sharada Dwivedi. Sharada devoted her working life to researching Bombay and those of us who have a passion for Indian urban history have all benefitted from her fine work. When we first set-up Irani Chai, Mumbai. Sharada was enthusiastic and very supportive; in fact she was so excited she offered to share a piece she had written several years earlier on Yazdani Bakery in Fort. You can read her piece on Yazdani Bakery here.
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irani chai,mumbai: Sharada Dwivedi
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We have been really saddened by the news this week of the unexpected passing of Sharada Dwivedi. Sharada devoted her working life to researching Bombay and those of us who have a passion for Indian urban history have all benefitted from her fine work. When we first set-up Irani Chai, Mumbai. Sharada was enthusiastic and very supportive; in fact she was so excited she offered to share a piece she had written several years earlier on Yazdani Bakery in Fort. You can read her piece on Yazdani Bakery here.
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irani chai,mumbai: July 2014
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BBC World chows down at Britannia! BBC World paid a visit to Britannia, Ballard Estate this week. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Irani Chai, Mumbai exists to remember and document, through words and visuals, the Irani cafes of Mumbai. The final aim of the project is to present the story of Mumbai's Irani cafes - and its Irani community - online and in print as an illustrated, affordable popular history book. What sits behind the nostalgia for these unmistakably Mumbai social spaces? View my complete profile.
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irani chai,mumbai: "old is gold" : B. Merwan, Grant Road
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Old is gold" : B. Merwan, Grant Road. The ferocious rapidity of change in Mumbai continues - Boman and Soroush Nazrabadi have shuttered the doors and windows of Grant Road's B. Merwan cafe for the last time, 100 years after their grandfather Boman Merwan opened them up. In 2007 we interviewed Boman Nazrabadi - here is an excerpt. Here is the perfect location next to Grant Road Station, it was my grandfather’s intuition or whatever you want to call it and you know, in Bombay, people have come from M...
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