September 2nd, 2009
Bombay Dabbas
In a city as large as Bombay, India, hotels are plentiful and the choice for accommodations isn’t always easy. Our hotels offer luxury with a difference. With careful attention to detail, we merge the old-fashioned charms of hospitality with all the modern conveniences, so you can enjoy a splendid rest and see the sights in this splendid place. Bombay has enormous treasures to offer visitors of all ages, and our hotels are a perfect place to call home while you’re here. We make sure that every member of the family is comfortable and enjoying their stay, offering gourmet meals, exercise facilities, in-room entertainments, and so much more.
In Bombay (now called Mumbai), there is a dazzling array of attractions and distractions to fill your days with new memories. It is one of the largest cities on the planet, with an enormous diversity of cultures, and languages and customs make themselves visible on the streets every day. People watching here is one of the major attractions, where the human comedy plays itself out before one’s very eyes. If this isn’t enough, there are tours and sight-seeing and all the fine things a bustling city can offer. Bombay is a feast for the senses, and it is visually one of the more stunning places in India. Visual arts are especially lively here, and one can see local artists making use of everyday in their objects. One excellent example of the everyday making its way into art are the dabbas.
Dabbas are aluminum or tin containers that serve as lunch boxes. Workers who have to travel far from home often hire people to bring their lunches to them every day in dabbas. They are particularly unique, then, to India, and speak of an average person performing work. However, at the Kala Ghoda, this is turned on its head. The dabbas are being used in installation art. In one iconic image, dabbas were attached to bicycles, which were attached to a ferris wheel, so that visitors were greeted with a delightful and thoughtful visual reminder of the cycles of life and work, in a festival setting. Here we see a sublime and playful commentary on how the ordinary can be made sacred, and still keep its sense of humor, when art and life start to dance together.
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