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Streetscapes

Photographs by Mamta Badkar

Published: Volume 17, Issue 3, March, 2009

Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2009 offered a rather healthy dose of culture and consumerism to those who walked the stretch. Mamta Badkar picks the best of the lot and creates a photographic tableau

	While on the Bombay Heritage Walk we visited nooks and crannies of the Mumbai University campus, canonised but not open to the public. It also houses the Preamble to our Constitution.
	Mumbai’s business district, which has some of the finest colonial architecture in the city, was revealed to the public on the Horniman Circle Walk.
	Achyut Palav pasted modern calligraphy on the pavement.
	Revati Sharma Singh’s Toilet Maze asked, ‘how long can we tolerate the stench of human waste?’
	A pavement artist’s take on kitschy interiors.
	Poonam Jain and Amol Patil’s Windows commented on the human tendency to look into spaces and situations that offer fantasy or escape.
	Mithila Mehta’s Made in ‘Chai’na paid tribute to Mumbai’s cutting-chai culture.
	No More Terrorism, created by Fight Back was an interactive project with postcards to Pakistan, which they hope to send across the border.
	Nidhi Singh decided to “go green, Bollywood style.” Bollywood poster painters who lost out to digital printing have been commissioned to paint movie posters on organic cotton tees.
	A dizzying perspective of Jayaram T. Gopale’s wire sculpture.
	Sanjukta Wagh and the cast of Let Her Be Born combined Marathi and English works with Kathak and modern dance performances to voice feminist concerns.
	Something Relevant kept it interactive with their characteristic goofy rhetoric and jazzy tunes.
	Anandi Ramachandran and Daksha Mashruwala presented impassioned performances of Panchamahabhoota, a Bharatanatyam – Odissi recital.

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