Brasilian Bandra

Tuesday, September 26

With a new playground and capoeira lessons for kids, the Bandra seashore is getting more kid-friendly. It’s all for the children’s:

Hand-rotated Ferris wheel of dubious vintage:

Horsie rides:

Brand-new playground:

Capoeira lessons for kids:

Violence in front, pilgrimage in back:

And, of course, sex ed:

manish vij on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006, 7:17 pm in Bombay, Photos › Email this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link › Reader links

Hoarding

1literary safari on September 26th, 2006, 10:47 pm › Link

They’d learn more if they had a copy of Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!
2Filmiholic on September 27th, 2006, 3:58 am › Link

I see a pandeiro, but wot, no berimbau?
3DesiDancer on September 27th, 2006, 4:34 am › Link

desi capoeira badasses in the making? Salaam Bombay!
4ashvin on September 27th, 2006, 11:41 am › Link

There’s something appropriate about Capoeira being performed in Bandra — with the colonial Portuguese legacy and all. I knew this girl from Bombay (maybe Bandra — she had a portuguese last name) who was taking Capoeira classes while in grad school in the american midwest.
5Bombay Addict on September 27th, 2006, 11:45 am › Link

Lit Safari - Gaaah. It’s “Eats, shoots & leaves”.

Manish - Is that the same playground which was built over (or in place of) the doggie park ? (Link to a related article here).
6manish on September 27th, 2006, 3:36 pm › Link

Sounds like the same one, it’s on the Carter Road promenade.