Looking for lost landmarks

Updated On: 02 September, 2012 08:53 AM IST | | Moeena Halim

As you navigate Mumbai's mostly chaotic, and always potholed roads, it's the landmarks ufffd cited to cab drivers and even asked quizzically of shopkeepers ufffd that play rescuer. But what of those landmarks ufffd buildings, cinema halls, statues and tanks ufffd that no longer exist but still help you find your way? Moeena Halim went looking for these lost icons, and came back with a handful of stories instead

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Bandra talkies?” we ask the rickshaw driver. He nods, we get in. The ‘talkies’ that shut shop years ago has now been replaced by the Shoppers Stop building. But the place is still known by the old name. “All passengers ask me to take them to Bandra Talkies,” Babu Rao, our rickshawalla, tells us.

Framjee Cowasjee Institute in Dhobi Talao, where the old tank once stood