Shibani.net - Blog & personal website of a web & graphics designer in search of herself

I have been through so many emotions in the last 3 days but I am not alone. This is how every Mumbaikar has been..this is how every Indian has been. There is anger, fear, frustration, hope, pride, sorrow…
Mumbai has seen one of its worst terrorists attacks and we’re all shook up. Though the terrorists at [...]

I had a beautiful evening at the U. Srinivas and Pt Shivkumar Sharma concert. It was food for the soul
The Times Group has organized the Bandra Festival. This festival covers a lot of cultural activities and these are held around this suburb. I attended a classical music recitcal by U. Srinivas (he plays [...]

Why does it rain when I don’t carry an umbrella? I’ve being tagging one along daily but not a drop of rain to justify the useless burden. And today, when I decide to chuck the ruddy thing for it’s a nice and sunny day (which made me believe that I would look stupid carrying an [...]

It was a historic moment, unlike anything that this city has known. Our 20-20 heroes touched base in Mumbai, this morning, to receive a hero’s welcome. They travelled atop an open air bus, for their own ‘Vijay Yatra’ (victory parade), from the International Airport to Wankhede stadium. Mumbai was flooded with people, singing, cheering, bursting [...]

Capoeira is a Brazilian dance-martial-arts-game kinda thingy. It was practiced by the Brazilian slaves when they were shipped to Portugal - way back in the 16th century. Since these slaves were prohibited from practicing martial arts, they devised a method which looked like dance. So Capoeira is a fight-dance. The amphitheater area at Carter Road [...]

Thank you Hema, Jayanti and Shyamala madam for helping me reach home on that rainy day - July 26, 2005. God Bless…

Lovely blue sky and the reflective sea at Bandstand - post sunset.

I’m very excited today. I’m jumping around the house today. Not only because its a Saturday and tomorrow’s an off, not only because I am going over to my cousins house for a ‘Girls night-out’, not only because we launched a new website but also because my blog post excerpt on the rains got featured [...]

At last, the heavens had mercy on us. They are here. Drops in all sizes. Pitter-patter on my window. The monsoons have finally arrived.
We had our very first rain shower for this year and what a relief it is from the scorching heat. A lovely breeze is blowing and you can smell the air - [...]

I was watching the news today and they mentioned the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. What? It’s not yet completed? That’s late. That’s pretty late because the project was supposed to be done by 2004. It’s 3 years later now and the new estimated due date is the end of next year. But looking at the way [...]