Mumbai Festival is on..there are stalls eveywhere selling everything from a safety pin to ur dream holiday!
This city is never short of shopping holes. Almost every third day you have a new exposition/exhibition/utsav/ fair being held in some corner of the city sprucing up hitherto abandoned grounds to airconditioned Free Market domes. To catch hold of the kiddies you have fun zones and food courts. To couple that you have sarkar sponsored handicrafts exhibitions where you can find wares from plastic(!) to metal((!!)The previous year just passed leading up the shopping mania to the pinnacle. Now when it just seemed that the wallets felt a bit relaxed and safe, Mumbai Festival takes over.
I really dont know how different it is from any of the usual exhibitions except for the extensive press coverage. The organisers have even managed to rope in some artists for stage/culture shows..Like a mumbaikar cares! Mumbai and culture? Although it might do some good to new artists wanting to catch some attention
Ok after all said and one, if you still be a part of this festival, BE MY GUEST! (PG ofcourse!. Like I said, Mumbai and culture?)
This city is never short of shopping holes. Almost every third day you have a new exposition/exhibition/utsav/ fair being held in some corner of the city sprucing up hitherto abandoned grounds to airconditioned Free Market domes. To catch hold of the kiddies you have fun zones and food courts. To couple that you have sarkar sponsored handicrafts exhibitions where you can find wares from plastic(!) to metal((!!)The previous year just passed leading up the shopping mania to the pinnacle. Now when it just seemed that the wallets felt a bit relaxed and safe, Mumbai Festival takes over.
I really dont know how different it is from any of the usual exhibitions except for the extensive press coverage. The organisers have even managed to rope in some artists for stage/culture shows..Like a mumbaikar cares! Mumbai and culture? Although it might do some good to new artists wanting to catch some attention
Ok after all said and one, if you still be a part of this festival, BE MY GUEST! (PG ofcourse!. Like I said, Mumbai and culture?)
5 comments:
you are right in passing your views on Mumbai- festivals. continuity of such fairs every now and then is owing to marketing the carry over of food stocks in the so called Food-Courts for children and like you guys!
-father of a reckless child
Gandalf's signature rocks !!
Haallo Ms Cobain,
I read your artical. I also visited the festival and bought some items.. viz. a telephone handset fastener (to strap on to your head) and an electric massager (handheld). Now they are / defective not working. The phone hand/head set contains in its address book names and numbers that I have not even heard of. Apparently they must have come back from a previous buyer who must have returned the merchandise. And the messager needs batteries. But my neighborhood masseur uses his bare hands !!
I want your help (as a self appointed authority on shopping festivals) in getting a refund for the forementioned items from the respective stalls / counters.
Further, I upset my gastric lining after eating the stuff that was dished out at the food court. I plan to claim compensation for that. Hence here I am at your doorstep.
Your comment section rocks!!! Was that really Gandalf who left that first comment?
"Speak friend, and enter"
GANDALF Sucks
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