Press coverage of the Elephants leaving Mumbai

This article to contradict the crazed female in heat story and tells a far sadder tale - Lakshmi the elephant, her back broken by a driver, had to be put down in 2006:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/asia/24iht-elephant.2915662.html


Coverage of the ban:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/city-life-too-cruel-for-mumbais-elephants-459651.html

http://www.nowpublic.com/india_bans_elephants_mumbai

http://incobra.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/ban-of-elephants-in-mumbai/

http://www.petaindia.com/feat/f-mumbai-victory.asp


As of Dec. 2009, some elephants remain after ban:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/two-years-after-ban-elephants-continue-to-beg-on-city-roads/552153/0

Pictures of elephants in Mumbai to follow in the next post.

Team America

Is on the ground and we are making progress.

Team America

"Stop TB. Don't spit."

Elephants in Mumbai

The elephants are gone from Mumbai in the last year or so . The story I heard is that a female went beserk and killed some people. Apparently she was in heat and it all became just a bit too much for her and she snapped. After a couple of days on the ground here I sympathize with the elephant. It's a maelstrom of shiny bits of modern and clean scattered through the muck, mold, mildew, dust, and human debris here, banyan trees growing and suturing the city together or breaking it apart, alternately. It's really unlike nothing I could have imagined here. Everything here is new or wants to be but they take so long to build things that by the time they are done they are already molding and rotting away. Except the older colonial era buildings. Somehow those are intact. I find myself wondering if there wasn't a lot to be learned there that got thrown out with the bathwater. Gandhi liberated his people for this? I am not sure this is what he had in mind. It's all flash and no substance. If god is in the details there is no god here. Not feeling all up with mumbai today. More contemplative clearly.

campus being built for a VFX company A in film city, mumbai

more marriott courtyard andheri east, mumbai

elevator view on the fourth floor

lobby

breakfast scramble in the very hard to expose lobby/cafe area

too much glass and all glare outside...iphone is not the best tool for this.

mumbai courtyard marriott in andheri east

an entire front wall constructed from bulletproof glass...this place gives a whole new meaning to "safety"

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area, cont'd

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area

the foyer and ganesha..."om gum ganapatiyay namaha" is what it says...

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area, cont'd

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area, cont'd

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area, cont'd

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area, cont'd

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area, cont'd

apartment hunting in northern suburbs, lake powai area, cont'd