A chance visit to Vinay Health Home

This Saturday evening I ended up at the other end of the city (Girgaon) and to one of the places that I've seldom visited. Of course, as a child, I remember having been there to visit a famous Balaji temple at Phanaswadi.

Eventually, after many years, I came to equate Girgaon with Panshikar and Vinay Health Home (re-reading Busybee's reviews many times about this place may have had something to do with that). Actually, Girgaon could've been a sort of "branch" of Dadar or vice-versa...a kind of "mirror image". Most (important) shops in Dadar (used to) also happen to have a branch in Girgaon. "Vaman Hari Pethe", "Panshikar", "Haribhau Vishwanath Vadyavrinda"...

A sudden interest in buying amateur telescopes made me take a train to Charni Road and then visit a place near the Cawasjee Patel Tank (aka C. P. Tank). This telescope creator (Tejraj) has a small place (within a fourth-floor apartment) that sells telescopes...from small "pen-telescopes" right up to motorized ones (the ones that claim to enable one to see the craters on the moon's surface)...that is, ones that cost from Rs. 300 right up to about Rs. 75k.

Since I passed Vinay Health Home as I went along, I decided I would drop in on my return from the telescope "shop". I was surprised to see that it had undergone changes (the settings were quite different from that mentioned in Busybee's review).

I had Batata Poha and Piyush. I found the poha to be a bit oily, but good enough. Also, the quantity was a bit disappointing. The piyush, however, was one of the tastiest ones I have ever had...even better than the ones that I used to have regularly at Panshikar's in Dadar or at Sapre's in Goregaon. Bill = Rs. 30 (Rs. 15 each for the poha and the piyush).

Satisfied, I returned back by train.

The area itself is very strange. As one enters the Girgaon area on the Dr. Babasaheb Jaykar Road, one can see a strong presence of Maharashtrian people. Half-way along on the way to CP Tank, the composition suddenly changes and one can see many Gujarati people. Some buildings have their names written only in Gujarati.

24032007 KYN DLS: About

The KYN DLS is about 10 to 12 years old and is home to about 64 locos. The largest (diesel?) sheds, as per the DLS employee are the ones at NKJ (New Katni Junction) and Tughlaqabad (TKD).


The WDM2 has a rating of 2600 hp, whereas the WDG3 (Shaktis) are usually 3100 hp.