Mumbai Lens: The Gorai Pagoda

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Some things are “discovered” serendipitously, like the Gorai Pagoda.

One Saturday morning in January 2010, I found myself with nothing to do. I was Borivali to conduct a training session on report writing, which had got cancelled at the last-minute due to an outbreak of food poisoning amongst the group I was supposed to train.

I didn’t feel like returning home or going for a movie or visiting friends who lived in the area. I wanted to see and experience something new. As I was standing outside the training centre mulling over various options, I saw a bus heading for Gorai Jetty. And I knew where I wanted to go—the Global Vipassana Pagoda a.k.a. the Gorai Pagoda, a place that I had only heard about but had not visited.

A short and sharp auto rickshaw ride later, I was at the jetty buying a return ticket to Gorai Island for a visit to the Pagoda. As I walked towards the waiting ferry, I saw this shimmering golden pagoda rising in the distance, almost like a mirage.

Gorai Pagoda

I spent so much time looking at the beautiful,magical and ethereal pagoda and taking pictures that I missed the ferry and had to wait for the next one to take me to Gorai Island for an exploration of the Global Vipassana Pagoda. But that, dear reader, is matter for another post. 🙂

Mumbai Lens is a photographic series which, as the name suggests, is Mumbai-centric and is an attempt to capture the various moods of the city through my camera lens. You can read more posts from this series here.

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26 thoughts on “Mumbai Lens: The Gorai Pagoda”

    1. You’re right, Deboshree. One has to take the ferry from Borivali to Gorai Island. At the landing there are two paths, one goes to Essel World and the other goes to the Gorai Pagoda 🙂

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  13. not fair.. i expected more to read… e1 i happend to reach dat place serendipitously,.. lols… v wer supposed to go sumwhr else but landed at dis place…

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    1. Welcome here, Saurabhi. Sorry that I was not able to live up to your expectations. The Mumbai Lens series is a like a trailer, and I did mean to write a longer and full post, but that has not happened yet. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do a photo-essay in the first week of May.

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