The Vogons are everywhere!!

The Eastern Freeway project (EFP) is an under-construction freeway to provide a direct link between the Eastern Express Highway and south Mumbai.^[1] The Eastern Freeway will be a 22-km high-speed corridor from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India) right up to Eastern Express Highway through the relatively less-congested roads of the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) area.^[2] This freeway will drastically reduce travel time between Colaba in South Mumbai and the eastern suburbs like Ghatkopar and Mulund. The four-lanes EFP, which will start near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, will go on to the Mumbai Port Trust road before joining the EEH via the Anik-Panjrapole link road, near Wadala, a distance of 12 km. Of these, 9 km will be elevated. This project will consist twin tunnel onBARC mountain and will be approximately half a kilometre in length each with 17 metres in width and 10 metres in height, it will have four carriageways in each tunnel.^[3] Work on this freeway already started on Jan 2008 and scheduled to complete by 2012 end.^[4] This project will cost 531 crore (US$116.82 million)^[2]
(From Wikipedia)

The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project. Vogons are slug-like but vaguely humanoid, are bulkier than humans, and have green skin. Vogons are described as mindlessly bureaucratic, aggressive, having "as much sex appeal as a road accident" and the writers of "the third worst poetry in the universe". They are employed as the galactic government's bureaucrats.

(from Wikipedia)

Will certainly make the commute to Alibag much easier... unnamed authors and artists???

Ceramics on the edge

Dekha Undekha

Ghar pe  - an exhibition which is a culmination of a project where three contemporary ceramicists worked with four people who have been raised or married into potters' families in Dharavi's Kumbharwada in Mumbai, opens at 4.30 pm on February 25th, 2012 at the Ganesh Vidya Kandir Primary School, Dharavi Cross Road, Off 90 Feet Road, Dharavi, Mumbai


Clay is a daily engagement with the people of Kumbharwada - as  potters, as decorators, as helpers in the process of converting raw clay, dug out from distant farms and transported to the heart of Mumbai, into terra cotta pots that still find use in people's homes or which mark the festivals through the year. Mamta and Ashwin Solanki, Lakshmi, and Daksha Waghela, invited us into their home and we spent afternoons working with clay in ways that were quite unknown to them... clay suddenly transformed from the material with which they earned their respectful living to a material which allowed them to play and tell the stories of their lives, their hopes, their trials and their aspirations. An innate sense of material, allowed them to express themselves with growing confidence and this exhibition showcases their early explorations within which lies real potential for art expression.


Rashi Jain, Anjani Khanna and Neha Kudchadkar worked with Ashwin and his family and friends under the auspices of Dekha Undekha - Conversations about Art and Health in Urban India, conceptualized and facilitated by Mumbai based non profit SNEHA (Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action), and supported by the Wellcome Trust, UK.

Studio Potters' Market 2012

In its fourth year!

Three years on .....

Anshu Dorairaj and Meeta Bhatti present...

November 24th to 26th, at Meher Apartments, Mumbai