Bombay Sweets and Simple Life
I remember reading somewhere that the lines of R K Narayan's first novel on Malgudi was actually inspired by Mysore; a small town with large boulevards, laid-back lifestyle, strong coffee and simple people. And I looked with this opinion at Mysore. But when we reached there and got conned several times near the city centre by three-wheeler rickshaw wallahs, I felt deceived.
So to take our minds off the episode, we walked and wondered why was it that most sweet shops in Mysore were called Bombay Sweets or Bombay Tiffany's. I tried finding out why there seemed a fascination for the Bombay connection but with no success. I reasoned that maybe the first few people who tasted sweets in Bombay liked them and came back and founded sweet shops with the Bombay name and that stuck. I may be entirely wrong here.
And whilst we walked, we also saw this.
A shop owned by a family was closing down. It was a small shop and with what I saw, there was an adjoining room to it. The couple was making the most use of the space, that included the scooter as well. I liked the simplicity of the atmosphere. It took me back to the opinion I had of Mysore.
So to take our minds off the episode, we walked and wondered why was it that most sweet shops in Mysore were called Bombay Sweets or Bombay Tiffany's. I tried finding out why there seemed a fascination for the Bombay connection but with no success. I reasoned that maybe the first few people who tasted sweets in Bombay liked them and came back and founded sweet shops with the Bombay name and that stuck. I may be entirely wrong here.
And whilst we walked, we also saw this.
A shop owned by a family was closing down. It was a small shop and with what I saw, there was an adjoining room to it. The couple was making the most use of the space, that included the scooter as well. I liked the simplicity of the atmosphere. It took me back to the opinion I had of Mysore.