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Throwback Thursday: These Mumbai images will take you back to the 90s

Updated on: 22 September,2016 05:00 PM IST  | 
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The nineties in Mumbai was the last of the decade which has an old charm to it. The first wave of global awareness touched the city and it was also the last generation before smart phones, tablets, facebook, selfies, and other technologies took over it

Throwback Thursday: These Mumbai images will take you back to the 90s

The nineties in Mumbai was the last of the decade which has an old charm to it. The first wave of global awareness touched the city and it was also the last generation before smart phones, tablets, facebook, selfies, and other technologies took over it.


Here are some pictures which will take you back to the nineties.


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In an unusual and eyecatching display, a skeleton works out upon a stationary bycicle in Bombay, part of the upcoming 'man and machine' exhibition at the Nehru Science Centre in the eastern port city, India's financial and commercial district, to start 28 December 1996.

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A billboard advertising butter capitalises on the recent shooting of a Bombay film producer. Bombay has seen string of apparent gangland contract killings in recent months.

Throwback Thursday vintage images Bombay Mumbai news old Bombay vintage pictures

Forex dealers watch their screens at the ANZ Grindlays bank in Bombay during panicky and volatile trading. The Rupee crashed two percent to a 21 month low of 37.52 against the dollar.

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Nine-year-old Lajwanti gives a helping hand to the family's traditional earthen pot business in one of Asia's largest slums in Dharavi in Bombay as she colours the largest selling 'Diyas' or earthen lamps used throughout India during the 'Diwali Festival of Lights.' Lajwanti's family originate from the craftsman from Gujrat on the western coast of India and have settled in Bombay.

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INS Mysore, India's second missile guided destroyer is moored at the Mazagon docks in the port city of Bombay and was commissioned by the Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. INS Mysore is the second guided missile destroyer commissioned and is also capable of surviving and operating in an area of nuclear,biological and chemical warfare.

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