Here is an oppurtunity for all shutterbugs to capture some gr8 moments of the city, meet some more people passionate about photography and have some unadulterated fun together.

Here’s the idea:

Amature / Professional photographers take a day tour of Mumbai, clicking shots based on 3 distinct themes. Everyone submits 12 best shots from the ones they have taken, and we pool them together. All participants may meet at the end of the day and share their photos and stories.

What do you get?

Privilege of participating in first such even in Mumbai
An opportunity to experience Mumbai
A reason to freak out
So what are the themes?

Roadside Mumbai
Mumbai Rush
Tourists in Mumbai
Drop an email if you would like to join. The email is blog (at) kapilb . com

Or
Visit the blog and leave a comment

Do you live in and around Mumbai ? Do you love the city, Would you like to express your love by writign about it on Mumbai Metroblogging ? If so, now is your chance. As a Metroblogger author, you will be free to write about whatever they want as long as it has some connection to Mumbai, but you must post AT LEAST three times a week.

You obviously live in or right around Mumbai. Other than that, kuch bhi chalega!

New ideas are encouraged and given a free hand. The mission is to get people coming back for more and more.

This is a great opportunity to get your opinions heard, gain writing experience, blow off steam, or just see what it’s like to write to a broad audience.

We only have a few spots, so if you are interested, you need to move on this NOW! We will be accepting applications, so drop us a line before then. Include the following:

• Full Name
• Writing or blogging history if applicable (if you have not written before, that doesn’t mean we will not consider you!)
• A short explanation of why you would be a good blogger with us

To apply, send a note to metblogs@wadias.in We also welcome questions you may have. We are excited to hear from you.

- The Mumbai Metblogs

Welcome to Auckland, our member city # 51. Hop on over and say hi !!

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Graz the second largest city of Austria is part of the Metblogs family. It also helps Metblogs cross over the 50 city mark. Welcome to the bloggers of Graz.

My personal association with Graz goes back to 1995 when I first visited the city as a student of architecture, participating in a conference. Since then it has been a lifelong affair of love and admiration for the city.

Last year I wrote about Graz and its architecture

Graz is one of the most beautiful medium sized cities in Europe. The modern architecture movement there is about 4 decades old. Its developed into a movement of its own called the Grazer Schule. The state of Styria, of which Graz is the capital, elected an architect as its governor in the early 80’s and he made it mandatory for all projects built with government money to go through a process of competition. Thus every architect, young and starting, or established and famous could compete for the projects and many a new architecture star was born this way. The general public awareness about architecture is amazingly high. More of that in another post someday soon.

You can read a bit more about my personal connection here.

But wait, before you do that, hop on over to Metblogs Graz and say hi !!

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Diwali: “The Festival of Lights” is the Hindu New Year. Today India celebrates Diwali. Metroblogging Mumbai would like to wish all our loyal readers a very Happy Diwali 2006.

Stay safe, be happy, light fire crackers responsibly.

It has been brought to our notice that this blog has since last Sunday been taken over by four new squatters. This is in addition to the other squatters that have been residing here, free of charge, since last December.

These squatters have all of a sudden put out a lot of graffitti on the blog walls and the front doors. On closer inspection, the graffitti is pretty darned good.

And because of that the older squatters have allowed these new squatters to be around. Of course if they slack up or do crazy things, then the viewing public of Metroblogging Mumbai has the option to zap them with comment spam.

OK, enough.

In case you did not realize, we have 4 new authors. Welcome to

Gauravnomics

Dadoji Kondke

360degreeviewer

Sim.

Check out their bios in the author section, and join us in welcoming them.

There shall be a party and the drinks are on the new squatters expense account.

If you are a regular reader of Mumbai Metblogs, let me take this opportunity to thank you. However have you ever wished that you could also be an author here at Mumbai Metblogs ? Are you a blogger ? Or thinking of becoming one ?

Well today is your lucky day. Every month Metblogs opens a few cities for inviting authors. August is the month for Mumbai.

So if you think you are a good fit for Mumbai Metblogs, hop on here and fill in the application.

If selected you shall become a member of the huge metblogs family which has 49 cities worldwide and hundreds of authors and millions of readers.

Metblogs turns 49 today. Not in years, but in terms of member cities. State Capital of California, it is the 4th metblogs city from that state. I sense some conspiracy in that, but that’s for another post.

In the meantime, stop by and say a hi AAHNOLDDDD style at http://sacramento.metblogs.com

Even though Brazil was prematurely ejected from the World Cup, the folks at Metblogs, stuck to their guns and got Rio into the ring.

Yes people, the city of the Carnival | Samba | Copacabana | Ipanema Beach and so much more is now one of us. The first Brazilian city.

Go give them a holler at Metblogs Rio