Kapil’s Korner

Frantic search for Sabina continues-India-The Times of IndiaScary. The last message she sent to her husband - “They are in my bathroom”. After which there has been no news from Sabina. As of Friday evening there was no confirmation on what happened to her.
Mumbai Mirror - Terrorists partied before mayhem near Leopold, News - [...]

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The morning you wanted everything would be calmful but …
4.15AM Thursday MorningI finally hit the bed after watching the news channels for over 6 hours in an attempt to keep up with the latest developments. Every loud explosive noise I heard was immediately being checked on TV to know where and what the attack [...]

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Thoughts from tonight’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai city…

The news was shocking. But the loud explosion sounds were scary and reminded me of the afternoon from the Mumbai ‘93 blasts.

I would say, this terror strike has been the most gruesome. The modus operandi of random firings, grenade attacks and taking foreigners as hostages seem to [...]

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After missing out on the opportunity last year, I was determined to photograph this year’s Ganesh Visarjan. I went closer home at Badhwar Park but was disappointed by the low activity and so moved on to visit the biggest visarjan centre in Mumbai - Girgaum Chowpatty.

A few lessons from the photo activity I learnt [...]

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On Tuesday I went partying with cousins to Poison. It was a pre-wedding celebration for my cousin and her fiance. It was a great bonding time before sister leaves for her new world. I wish them both lots of luck and God bless them.
Poison is one of the posh discotheques in Bandra supposedly run by [...]

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Early this week fuel prices went up and petrol now costs Rs. 55.88/ltr in Mumbai. And I like what this graffiti says.
 Image is from an email forward.

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From today’s Mid-Day - Carlsberg beer’s promotion campaign.
Read the PDF file from Mid-Day’s website.

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Just confirmed my presence for the Indiblogger organised Mumbai blogger meet. Please sign-up to confirm your presence and also spread the word through your blog.
Update: The new date for the blogger meet is Sunday, 27th of April.Venue yet remains undecided.

Mumbai blogger meet
20/04/2008 at 16:00

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This week’s Monday Mumble has been kind of stuck due to a technical problem.
The Idea: I have set up a MumbaiTraffic twitter channel to which people send in updates based on their traffic experiences. For example, if you are driving to town and notice a large procession at Mahim Junction - you could leave [...]

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If memory serves me right it was Priya who started the whole idea of doing a photo drive of the Worli-Bandra sealink. Of course the long weekend was held responsible for her absence and ultimately the 6 twitter buddies (Aalaap, Anupam (bombayaddict), Preshit, Asfaq, Brajeshwar and me) braved the Sunday morning sun to accomplish the [...]

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