Nosey!
Anyone who travels by the central railway, commuting from thane to CST, knows when they are near sion, without looking out of the window for the station's name, without asking anyone around them where they are at the moment, even with their eyes shut, the commuter knows.
how? With his nose silly!
Yes, Dharavi stinks, and you know where you are. The same goes for the dadar flower market, a distinct smell of dead flowers. Juhu, Chowpatty, Marine Drive have that distinct smell of the sea, degrading vegetable/fruit remains.
Colaba smells of sweat in the afternoon, walking at colaba causeway, your nose picks up the cloth dye smell from the various, kurtas, t-shirts stalls. Then you are hit with smells of different cuisines at regular intervals, as you pass leo's beer and steak, shwarma rolls near piccadilly.
Gateway smells like a dead pigeon. And the sea smells the same all over the city. Bandra lanes carry goan cooking smells, carter road,(of rotting plants) bandstand of sea and perfumed joggers, as they swish past you carrying their adidas or nike wear along with that expensive cellphone. Why would anyone want to carry their cell phone while jogging.?
Getting back to train travel, bandra welcomes you with the filthy canal, dadar welcomes you with people smell, there are just too many people at dadar station (east, west, north and south).
At the end of a day's walking around the city...what do you smell of?
'Get into the shower!'
how? With his nose silly!
Yes, Dharavi stinks, and you know where you are. The same goes for the dadar flower market, a distinct smell of dead flowers. Juhu, Chowpatty, Marine Drive have that distinct smell of the sea, degrading vegetable/fruit remains.
Colaba smells of sweat in the afternoon, walking at colaba causeway, your nose picks up the cloth dye smell from the various, kurtas, t-shirts stalls. Then you are hit with smells of different cuisines at regular intervals, as you pass leo's beer and steak, shwarma rolls near piccadilly.
Gateway smells like a dead pigeon. And the sea smells the same all over the city. Bandra lanes carry goan cooking smells, carter road,(of rotting plants) bandstand of sea and perfumed joggers, as they swish past you carrying their adidas or nike wear along with that expensive cellphone. Why would anyone want to carry their cell phone while jogging.?
Getting back to train travel, bandra welcomes you with the filthy canal, dadar welcomes you with people smell, there are just too many people at dadar station (east, west, north and south).
At the end of a day's walking around the city...what do you smell of?
'Get into the shower!'
posted by scribbleamus at 2:54 AM
8 Comments:
yes, mommy!
;-)
A nose, a nose my city for a nose
I would add two more -
Glucose biscuits @ Vile Parle
Tobacco @ Cigarette Factory, Chakala
This was brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
I can actually see your fingers run ahead of you on the keyboard!
Sniff!
a city.. where ppl are not as nosey as they are in the City described in the next post.. where the nose has to take a back seat among the other nosey noses..( if it survives the masalas..and does not start runnin')
you should write here more often!!!
Brings back memories of Bombay! Ah, sweet nose-talgia!
i agree. every city has characteristic smells. i remember calcutta and the smell of old books, delhi and the smell of the hot sun burning the grass and the tarmac. bombay is in a different league of its own. sad and yet delightful.
you have also been blogrolled :)
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