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You can
pick up gooey posters of Bollywood film stars, small Hindi film
posters and technicolour representations of Hindu gods for next to
nothing from street stall vendors along MG Rd between the National
Gallery of Modern Art and the old Watson's Hotel, and under the
arcades of Dr D Naoroji Rd.
The Khadi Village Industries Emporium, has a handicraft section that
stocks half-metre-tall neon orange statues of Sai Baba. The Oberoi
Shopping Centre at The Oberoi hotel, has a wonderful store solely
devoted to selling Ganeshas. Mansoori, a tiny store off Mutton St in
Chor Bazaar, has an array of graphic 'erotic' paintings that it
better hope the Shiv Sena never sees.
You can pick up colourfully threaded mosque caps in Bhendi Bazaar
all the gear you need to conduct your own puja from a galli (alley)
off Panjarpole Rd in Bhuleshwar and hand-sten-cils for mehindi
patterns from a street stall outside Cafe Churchill on Colaba
Causeway. It's always worth a browse among the books and occasional
boxes of LPs under the cluttered arcades of Dr D Naoroji Rd - anyone
for a 30-year-old long player of the speeches of JFK ? The Nalanda
bookshop in the Taj Mahal Hotel sells old post-cards of Bombay that
will make you realise you've spent most of your stay walking on land
reclaimed from the sea.
If you need to wash Mumbai's pollution off your skin, Argentina at
No 3 Khatau Mansion, Bhulabhai Desai Rd has an Ayurvedic skin care
lotion made from berberry, red sandalwood, fenugreek, lodh- ra bark
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