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Who’s a Kimayagar of Bombay?
- Updated: April 6, 2017
Priyanka and Priyank Deshmukh with Yogesh Chande during The Gateway of India, a stopover on a trail. Pic/Bipin Kokate
Back in 1800s, when Bombay was still a old-fashioned trade city underneath a East India Company, a immature Marwari child trafficked from Surat to this blurb heart to acquire his living. At that time, small did he realize that he would go on to turn a city’s richest businessman, branch Mumbai into a ‘mayanagri’ that it is famous as today. While many called him a Kimayagar (Marathi: magician) of Bombay, deliberation his bravery to make income out of anything, he also finished adult apropos a much-hated man. Does a ‘hero’ sound true out of a novella novel? Well, he isn’t. If you’re penetrating to know some-more about a puzzling gentleman, starting with his name, embark on a midnight storytelling and cycle debate with Priyank Deshmukh and Yogesh Chande this Saturday.
Mumbai University
The 29-year-old duo, along with Priyank’s mother Priyanka, comprises a newly-formed travel-storytelling company, The Legend Of Bombay Bards. “For a past 4 months, we’ve been conducting this route for a friends. Since we perceived certain feedback, we motionless to open it to a public,” says Yogesh, who knows Priyank from engineering days during KJ Somaiya.
An architecturally considerable building nearby Horniman Circle. Pic courtesy/Ten Heritage Walks Of Mumbai
While they reason full-time jobs, it was their passion for storytelling and story that led to The Legend Of Bombay Bards. “Most of us remember places since of a stories of people compared with them. Such a route helps a guest reconnect with landmarks in a opposite way,” he says. When we poke him to exhibit a name of a story’s hero, he clams up, “It will hurt a suspense.”
Starting from CST, a eight-kilometre route (open to 15 guests) will cover 6 stops, including Horniman Circle, Mumbai University, The Gateway Of India, and finish during Marine Drive. “Each hindrance will assistance us snippet a gentleman’s life as he was compared with all these landmarks. But it’s not easy to find information on him. Though he did a lot for society, not a singular travel is named after him. We visited roadside bookstalls in Fort and Dadar for research,” shares Yogesh. They devise to horde storytelling trails opposite Mumbai each fortnight.
ON: Apr 8, 10 pm to 1 am
MEETING POINT: Outside CST hire (cycles will be provided)
LOG ON TO: http://bit.ly/2oBCbiS
COST: Rs 799
CALLL: 9833855671
Guess who?
If you’re wondering who a lady is, here are a few clues:
- He was obliged for assisting erect a tallest building in Mumbai behind in a 1800s
- His home in South Mumbai has been donated to an orphanage