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Mumbai Textile museum in defunct mill project unlikely to take off soon

Edit Indian Express 25 May 2016
Share This Article. Related Article ... Heritage panel to BMCCity’s first textile heritage museum to come up at Girangaon ... 6, slideMargin. 3 }); }); ... Besides an amphitheatre to stage performances of traditional Girangaon (mill culture) dance, music, literature and poetry, a fine dining franchise and a food court serving Bombay street food and local Maharashtrian, Goan, Udipi and Iranian food has also been suggested. ....

Into Mumbai’s heart

Edit The Hindu 19 May 2016
I have approached my object of fascination — Bombay for some strange reason — in different ways ... In ‘South to North ... Sarukkai Chabria recounts how the locality of Girangaon was a space for an “artistic culture and poetry in Marathi in which words were woven with the looms.” These accounts are accompanied by stark photographs in black and white of the facades and interiors of abandoned cotton mills....

An exercise in history writing

Edit The Hindu 25 Mar 2016
“The struggle for the daily bread is an everyday question. At times outside the door, at times inside. I’m a worker, a flaming sword. Listen, you intellectuals! I’m going to commit a crime ... Kusumagraj) ... a repository of films, poems, songs, interviews of/relating to the erstwhile mill workers of Girangaon in Bombay, put together by a team from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) ... Jayashankar and Dr ... Keywords....

Shivaji temple, Moti Mahal replica set to dazzle city

Edit The Times of India 15 Sep 2015
MUMBAI. Dusty roads and dreary street corners have begun to transform into the most scenic palace and temple settings ahead of Thursday's festival of Ganeshotsav. Skilled artisans are at work combining common fibreglass and white plaster of paris to lend a unique grandeur to Ganpati pandals ... Surve leaves the best for the last ... This mandal, dating back to 1920, was the first to be set up in the Girangaon belt comprising Lalbaug-Parel ... ....

Drag queens & fabulous stage shows expand reach of Marathi folk arts

Edit The Times of India 09 May 2015
When Anil Hankare goes shopping, he hurries past rows of staid shirts drawn to the colourful cascade of nauvari sarees ... Many of these folk arts flourished in Girangaon, the city's mill district, because mill workers would double-up as performers. They hailed from different parts of Maharashtra, so Girangaon soon became a confluence of cultures with regular performances of 'naman' and 'bharud' -- regional variants of a similar art form....

As high-rises replace smokestacks in Parel, locals receive windfall in domestic work

Edit The Times of India 11 Mar 2015
Six years ago, Geeta Rajput stood tentatively outside the new gated apartment complex in her neighbourhood, hoping to find work as a part-time cook. It was 2009 and only two of the four high-rises of the Ashok Towers complex had opened. A friend had referred Geeta to a couple moving in ... Known as Girangaon, or village of mills, the area has transformed in the past decade as mills have been replaced by offices and luxury apartments ... ....

Maharashtra Elections 2014: The Marathi versus Gujarati undercurrent comes to the fore

Edit DNA India 11 Jun 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014 - 6.49pm IST . Place. Mumbai . Agency. DNA. Dhaval Kulkarni. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+. Share on Reddit ... “Maharashtrians are coming out to vote in large numbers ... “This is Maharashtra ... In the Maharashtrian heartland of Parel, which formed part of the Girangaon (textile mill) belt, the MNS, which is defending its seat from a resurgent Sena, is trying to get a slice of the action ... ....
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