Some years ago, a friend from the UK needed to go to Dadar, the heart of the Maharashtrian locality of Bombay, for a meeting. I put her in a taxi and asked the cabbie to take her wherever she wanted and also bring her back home. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Aurangabad, Bal Krishna Gokhale, BMC, Bombay, Chaitya Bhoomi, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Daadur, Dadar, Dr B R Ambedkar, hindustan times, Lokmanya Tilak, Maharashtra, Morarji Desai, mumbai, news, Ramdas Athawale, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan
When McDonald’s first launched in Bombay, I remember, some NGOs took several children from the slums to this chain of restaurants for a treat. When one child was asked to comment how he had felt eating his first McBurger, he said, “I think I love our own vada pav better!” Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, July 1, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, BMC, Chattrapati Vada Pav, Congress, jhunka-bhakar, Jumbo King vada pav outlets, kande-pohe, Maharashtra, McDonald, Naraya Rane, Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, vada pav