We took the train from Chennai to Mumbai. It was a very long journey of around 24 hours. Our son Zaidin enjoyed waking-up in the train instead of his house with so much of people and noise around. He was happy being the attraction of everyone around for a day. Personally, I wanted to see the landscape between Chennai to Mumbai, what you can never see while travelling by plane. We went through so many small towns and villages, kilometres and kilometres of land totally deserted.
We reached on 23rd March and started interviewing people the next day. Since we lived in Mumbai before we were not surprised to see how different the interviews would be from South. Our researches in North India leave more space for individualism, intellectual reflection and dream comparatively to South India that always sticks to reality.
The interview protocol in North includes many subjects related to personality and self expression. We are still testing the relevance of our questions remotely before starting a long series of travel across the North Indian states. Thanks to Quillpad, the translation of our interview protocol in Hindi has become much easier.
The pre-research included 2 sorts of techniques focus group and individual interviews.
The place we are conducting the research is Kurla (West). Initially Kurla was a peaceful village away from Mumbai with beautiful residences and churches. As Mumbai grew, Kurla became part of Mumbai suburbs and Kurla got very much populated.
On one side of the village is the church, at the other side is the mosque. In between there is a couple of temples. Different communities co-habit easily with each other particularly the youth for whom friendship has no boundaries.
Children are doing their first communion these days at Holy Cross Church. There are many chapels in the village where people gather at the evening for religious activity and prayer.
We reached on 23rd March and started interviewing people the next day. Since we lived in Mumbai before we were not surprised to see how different the interviews would be from South. Our researches in North India leave more space for individualism, intellectual reflection and dream comparatively to South India that always sticks to reality.
The interview protocol in North includes many subjects related to personality and self expression. We are still testing the relevance of our questions remotely before starting a long series of travel across the North Indian states. Thanks to Quillpad, the translation of our interview protocol in Hindi has become much easier.
The pre-research included 2 sorts of techniques focus group and individual interviews.
The place we are conducting the research is Kurla (West). Initially Kurla was a peaceful village away from Mumbai with beautiful residences and churches. As Mumbai grew, Kurla became part of Mumbai suburbs and Kurla got very much populated.
On one side of the village is the church, at the other side is the mosque. In between there is a couple of temples. Different communities co-habit easily with each other particularly the youth for whom friendship has no boundaries.
Children are doing their first communion these days at Holy Cross Church. There are many chapels in the village where people gather at the evening for religious activity and prayer.
These pavilions let you imagine the kind of lifestyle Christian people were having few decades ago in this area.
Most pavilions have been replaced by smaller habitation as the village got more populated.
Hindus have couple of temples in the village. Their population is lesser and mostly from Maharashtra.
The Muslim area is dominated by green colour. Even boards are written in Hindi and Urdu characters.
Near by Holy Cross Church, Kohinoor city is taking shape. The round tower is Kohinoor’s shopping mall. Behind will be the business centre and nearly 1500 habitations.
As of now there are very few people living in Kohinoor city that is still under construction. I am curious to see what the atmosphere will be after Kohinoor’s population joins the area.
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Thanks for the photos of the old times in Kurla Village, It brings alot of memory back for people like me who are no longer there. Great job on the photos and thanks a ton once again
Thanks for the photos of the old times in Kurla Village, It brings alot of memory back for people like me who are no longer there. Great job on the photos and thanks a ton once again
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