My Ode to The Ghetto.
MissMalini inna di Ghetto!
Here’s the one place in Bombay where I feel the most at home. The Ghetto, an awesome little bar in Mahalaxmi that’s been around forever (and everybody knows your name) I swear when I moved here 10 years ago I made most of my friends at the pool table (including DJ Shaan who kicked my ass) Babu, a pretty permanent fixture at the bar and even Anu Agarwal (Bollywood belle of Ashiqui fame who had the most tragic accident ruining her face and her career) and Jesse Singh I bet your spirit hangs out there on most evenings, rest in peace man. Seriously the Ghetto walls, the stories they’d tell, anyone who’s ever been there knows what I’m talking about, right?
P.S. Melli, I’ll never forget the time I said, “Hey, lets go to the Ghetto” and you looked at me half amused half concerned and said, “should I bring my gun?” Lol.
I was originally looking for a video for the song “Inna Di Ghetto” but I can’t seem to find the one I want, so instead I’m going with MC Solaar. MC Solaar is the stage name of Claude M’Barali, a francophone hip hop and rap artist. I heard lots of him during the four years I lived in Ivory Coast, West Africa and he is awesome, just like The Ghetto.
Lets have some fun, post a comment with whatever you’ve ever written on The Ghetto walls over the years please :)
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May 5th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
wait what happened to anu agrawal.. details plz
May 5th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
After I read the book “The End of the Affair” by Graham Greene
I wrote the epigraph on the Ghetto Wall near the pool table:
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.” -Leon Bloy
May 5th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
@arohe apparently (when she was still much in demand and her career was going just the way she wanted it to) tragedy struck on the personal front. She met with a major road accident that damaged her face terribly and shattered her emotionally and thus she simply vanished and went out of circulation. Its really quite awful :(
One side of her face was pretty badly damaged and she has lots of scars on her arms… http://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainmenttags/archana-kochar-fashion-show/anu-agarwal-archana-kochar-fashion-show
May 5th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
you lived in Ivory Coast!!! for four years!? :O *bows in reverence*
May 5th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
“I used to be conceited, but now I’m PERFECT!” Haha!
May 5th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Ivory Coast!!!! wow it used to be a French colony and most of us don’t know matter-of-factly people still speak French there. I could only stay their for 6 months…..Malini you are a Goddess. I BOW to you.
May 5th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Yup Preethi and Mohit it was fab though, lived the good life cos dad was the Indian Ambassador :) everyone speaks French there and its kinda like living in Goa! Good times!
May 6th, 2010 at 12:49 am
Malini, that’s awesome. I grew up in Africa too, and it is most definitely the fab life! People can’t imagine just how wonderful it is unless they’ve been through it themselves. You and I are privileged :-)
May 6th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Indeed we are PB :) xoxo
May 6th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
And the master writes the rules..for the wizened n the fools..(above the door of the smoking room)..RIP Jesse Singh..
May 6th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Love that Che…
June 17th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
I wil vote for kolkata :)
June 17th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
excellent news. i will vote for kolkata…
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:51 pm
I stumbled upon your blog and noticed this post. Naming a “hip” bar called the ghetto is yet another example of India latching on to everything and anything western they can while letting go of their own culture. Being in the ghetto is neither hip nor cool.(Indians born and raised abroad seemed to be more in tune with our culture and traditions than Indians actually living in the country..but that’s another issue.) The word “ghetto” has negative connotations in both the past and the present. In the past, the word ghetto described the nazi created neighborhoods during the Holocaust used to segregate the jews. Nowadays, the ghetto describes a neighborhood filled not merely of just violence but people trying to rise above poverty and fighting against ingrained societal oppression. Calling a bar in India the “ghetto” is on par with naming a bar the “slum” and having india’s glitterati make it cool to be hanging out there. This is just pathetic..it’s pretty must “disneyifying” poverty and racism.
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