Wednesday, June 17, 2009

New York, Mumbai & i

Wearing a T shirt saying 'I Love NYC' presented by my niece Kritee Gujral from Florida, USA, & she helped me get started on this...all of us are presently in Long Island, New York, so i thought why not start my blog while hugged by the t-shirt with a lively red heart that represents what lays behind. I begin with the L..L..Loves of my life, and here I am !
Having lived in New Delhi, India almost all my life, yet my beloved city was & still remains 'Bombay', hate to call it Mumbai, but guess for official reasons can't escape that !
New York ? ...back in India, for decades if one was asked which city one yearns to visit...the answer was 1 New York..2 London / Paris.....Bombay i had been visiting since the age of Five, and by the time i was in College of Architecture, Chandigarh, reading The Fountainhead (which by the way, brought New York even closer to my heart), prescribed as a text book for English, and by the time i became an Architect had been to Bombay precisely Six times !!
So for Me "i" it is New York...& ' Bambai ', pronounced thus in our 'Filmcrazy' society...the word 'Bollywood' was coined much later !!
So here dear readers, i am going for a short break , You stay tuned , since i will be back soon !!

2 comments:

  1. i hav receivd you mail and come to now abt your web page and blog,i enjoy it all good luck sir,

    bambam kumar

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  2. Hi Arun Ji
    its nice to hear you from Long Island. while you are holidaying there, name of Delhi is under debate. is it New Delhi or Delhi, some like to call it Dilli and some dehali. CM wants to name it before game. what do you like to call it.
    have a nice holiday.
    ajay

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