Mumbai Salon’s of the non branded typology, are meeting points for real estate deals, neighbourhood gossip and an expression of minority experiences as most of the barbers are Muslim migrants from the heartlands of Yogi Land.
The soundscape is of Quranic verses on low volume, and of news of Muslim experiences during the Holy Month of Ramadan. The conversations are full of banter laced with masculine innuendos.
A site which exemplifies the ‘Bombay Brokers’, a book edited by Lisa Bjorkman. A space of aspiration and survival which is so Bombay, where everyone has a dream to fulfil where former barbers become owners and double up as real estate agents.
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