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30 May 2014
Mridula Chari
Among Mumbai's
more abiding urban legends is the one that the bouquets sold at traffic lights
are actually floral offerings stolen from the city's graveyards. How else, the
logic goes, could the vendors afford to sell flowers so cheap?
The truth, it
turns out, is less morbid. Far from skulking around cemeteries at night and
making off with flowers left there by grieving relatives, certain street
sellers in south Mumbai have a far more reputable source for their wares:
five-star hotels. […]