Mumbai

So they were a very powerful lot in pre-modern India, very different to what happened in modern India.

And that is why in 1934, the British passed the Devadasi Protection Act in Mumbai.

Yeah, that's like again, I mean, so custodians of Indian culture art and around temples, Devdasis, I think they were a fascinating story.

And now finally, we can talk about the colonial treatment as you're talking about the law which came into picture.

Free.

I got to experience Mumbai,

India for one month for free.

One of the best buffets I've ever had.

The Marriott in Mumbai, India.

It's one of the greatest buffets I've ever experienced.

Well, you know, I

All buffets are filled with germs and going to get you sick.

not that i want either group here but if you're choosing between the mexicans and the indians the indians vote a lot more like a just 100 pro-democrat pro like just outright race communism voter block than the hispanics do so it's like insane that that's the one that he loves as a republican um You kind of wonder what's going on there.

And then related to that, there's all the absurdity where it's like, well, you're not allowed to be upset that the University of Texas is just little Mumbai now because America is an idea.

Which, okay, well, first off, can you define the idea, which they never can.

And then second off, if you can define the idea, what recognizably American person held that idea? And in what world would he have been okay with just being surrounded by the inhabitants of the Raj? It is just absurd.

Mr.

B goes to Bombay to engage in the cotton trade and his wife is anxious to take up missionary work.

They are both young and very pleasant and companionable.

There is also a missionary and his family returning to India from Scotland.

The latter part of our voyage was very rough and I was too sick to write and I had five sick ones to look after besides myself as there was no stewardess or ship doctor.

I cannot bear to think of the sea, it treated me so badly.

We were met at Bombay by Reverend Mr. Bowen, a missionary who took us to lunch and arranged for our journey up country.

We were detained at Nagpur over a week waiting for our trunks.

Coming from the east, the blaze of India and the insolent tropical vegetation of Singapore dull the eye to half-colours and little tones.

It is at Bombay that the smell of all Asia boards the ship miles offshore and holds the passenger's nose until he is clear of Asia again.

That is a violent and aggressive smell, apt to prejudice the stranger, but kin nonetheless to the gentle and insinuating flavour that stole across the light airs of the daybreak when the fairy boat went to shore.

A smell of very clean new wood, split bamboo, wood smoke, damp earth, and the things that people who are not white people eat.

But the women will pull through it smiling.

Beautiful indeed are the operations of modern finance, especially when anything goes wrong with the machine.

Tonight there will be trouble in India amongst the lawn planters, in Calcutta jute, and Bombay cotton brokers, beside the little households of small banked savings.

In Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai there will be trouble too, and goodness only knows what wreck at Cheltenham, Bath, St. Leonard's, Torquay, and the other camps of the retired army officers.

But I think that the time has come when I should invite the press and the public to join in a crusade against a grievance which has too long remained unredressed, though much of it is capable of redress without great difficulty.

On the twelfth instant, I booked at Bombay for Madras by the mail train, and paid thirteen rupees nine paisi.

It was labelled to carry twenty-two passengers.

These could only have seating accommodation.

Let us be joint sharers with these teachers, and this land of ours will once more be the abode of gods.

The Moral Basis of Cooperation by Mohandas K. Gandhi.

Paper contributed to the Bombay Provincial Cooperative Conference, September 17, 1917. the only claim i have on your indulgence is that some months ago i attended with mr ewbank a meeting of mill hands to whom he wanted to explain the principles of co-operation The chawl in which they were living was as filthy as it well could be.

Recent rains had made matters worse, and I must frankly confess that, had it not been for Mr. Eubank's great zeal for the cause he has made his own, I should have shirked the task.

And she really needed those relatives at that moment.

And if I had come out to them and they... reacted negatively then the bond between my mom and them would have been you know problematic so i didn't want those things to happen and that is why i thought of i will just bear this pressure and it's just a matter of 10 days so i'll just go back to mumbai and then you know it's done so that's what i did and i think you know sometimes you don't have to always stand and you know start educating people because that's not how it works in real life all the time you have to sometimes understand what the situation is and you know then think about it rationally and at that time that's what I thought that's the best way to handle the situation just be go back to Mumbai after everything is over and but then it was claustrophobic you know that everyone is coming to meet me and they just had this one question So sometimes the moment, you know, I even felt it was almost like on my tongue that I should now say it, but you know, I had to control.

But so, so I, and because of that, I was constantly seeking escape from that place, from that house.

And that's when I had this thought that what if I had a friend in this village who would have, who knew about me, I would have just sneaked out with him for a while and stayed away from the pressure.

That was good, yes, sir.

Ah, here, Bombay, India.

Weather warmer here.

Mahatma Gandhi changes from winter to spring clothes.

How did I get here? All right, well, I grew up in the UK, so as you can tell by my accent.

And my dad's Indian from Mumbai.

And I grew up in the UK, went to college there.

So