A stone Griffin holding a shield.

A stone griffin mounted on the top of a building. It holds a shield.

A stone griffin holding a lance (not sure) mounted at the top of a building.

A stone griffin perched at the top of a building, one front paw raised. Behind it, a dome and spire rise even higher.

Griffins on the BMC headquarters building.

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A circular stained glass window that has an owl perched on a branch of a leafless tree on a hill. Behind is a landscape of a green plain and in the distance, hills. Clouds streak an orange sky. The window is backlit by afternoon sun. Below the window are two normal windows with trees visible through them.

One of the few (I think only, but I have never had the time to check all of them) stained glass windows at VT that isn’t a geometric pattern.

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A photograph of people climbing steps to reach the foot of an escalator.

#UnfriendlyUrbanDesign. Nine steps to get to the bottom of the escalator.
Not seen: there is no down escalator.

VT, north end.

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Three steel plates with stacks of bones licked clean and smears of gravy on the plates.

Bohri Mohalla was visited.

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A signboard on a wall, which says; This property belongs to Builtsum Realtors A different kind of (Nothing else below that)

A rather appropriate business name.

Spotted by @nandanky.bsky.social
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The art deco front of Moti Talkies. Behind it, a tower, one of the redeveloped buildings in what was once a low-slung neighborhood, rises into the night sky.

A crop from the previous picture showing a sign strung up from the wrought iron gateway. The sign says: Pay & Park at Moti Talkies

Once a landmark cinema theatre, now, in the era of glass-fronted towers and multiplexes in malls, a parking lot.

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@mumbaipaused.bsky.social would, I think, hashtag this #BombayInMumbai

A decorative entrance arch to a building compound. The building name is engraved in Roman and Gujarati letters: MORARBHAI VIJBHUKHANDAS MALVI MORAR BAG મારાર બાગ

Typography in the city.

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For @matratype.bsky.social, @mumbaipaused.bsky.social