For anyone who has lived in a great city with street-level public transit the experience is familiar: traffic is a lullaby; snooze; random awakening; the window frames something that seems important. There are plenty of visual reasons to take a bus, for residents as well as visitors.  This view was taken from such a window in Mumbai a few days ago, at a place that evoked a strong memory.  Neither was it 5th Avenue at 60-something Street, nor was that Central Park behind the wall.  But it was, for a moment.  For one particular person. A madeleine, of sorts?

Just a moment later, before the cab started moving again:

It was that dog, perhaps, just as much as the green trying to catch the city’s attention, that led the recall. And moments later, it passed.  The bus was now on to something totally different, new for one particular person. A visual lesson in how Mumbai and its businesses (including the newspaper of record for the country) celebrate Ganesh’s holiday: