Know Your Bombay
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you lesser known, amusing facts about our beloved Bombay. Explore this city’s history with these informational nuggets! [/otw_shortcode_info_box]
Banganga Tank: Built way back in 1127 AD, Banganga Tank is an ancient water tank that forms part of the Walkeshwar Temple Complex in Malabar Hill, South Mumbai. One of the holiest Hindu sites in Mumbai, as per legend, it was here that Ram’s brother Lakshman shot an arrow into the ground creating a hole for the water of the Ganges to flow through.
Maharashtra Nature Park (MNP): Maharashtra Nature Park (previously known as ‘Mahim Nature Park’) is a nature park located at Bandra-Sion link road, Mumbai. Situated at Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum, the 37-acre nature park has magical woodland with fourteen thousand trees, three hundred varieties of plants, a lake, hundreds of varieties of migrating birds and insects, thirty-five to forty-two different varieties of butterflies, reptiles and few mammals. Once a garbage dumping area with no trees, today it is considered a green heaven.
