Circuit Safari: Exploring Mumbai’s Lamington Road for Repairs & Spares
Poster prepared to spread the word A short walk was planned to explore Mumbai’s electronic repair hub starting at Grant Road Suburban Station to Lamington road ... How did this business come to flourish in these parts of the city? A 50-year-old says that in the nineties this was a hub for TVs, DVDs, VCRs along with the first versions of Personal Computers. A 35-year-old says that this was the place to get Thirty paise cyclostyle machines, when the rest of the city used to go at Fifty paise. Notes of the toppers in the college classes were photocopied here and bound into books for the benefit of others who relied on such help for examinations.Someone says that the market has been here forever and they have continued to sell electronic products that are relevant for the times. But these are pricey—real estate—and Mumbai is possibly the priciest. It is a business fraught with risks. Footpath vendors selling laptop and mobile covers on Lamington road A laptop shop-owner who set up in ...
