Mumbai’s culture
A resident of Mumbai is called a Mumbaikar or Bombayite. Many residents prefer to stay close to major railway stations for easy access to their workplaces as a significant amount of time is spent on daily commuting. Thus many live a fast-paced life with very little time for other activities. Mumbai is known to be one of the most liberal and cosmopolitan cities of India, with the city embracing many concepts that would be taboo in other cities. Mumbai residents celebrate Western and Indian celebrations and festivals with great fanfare. Residents of all communities and religions observe festivals and celebrations. The metropolis has its own local roadside fast food consisting of vada pavs and bhelpuri. South Indian and Chinese food are also very popular in the city. A cosmopolitan city, residents have their unique tastes in cuisine, music, film and literature, both Indian and international. In 2004, Mumbai received three heritage conservation awards from the UNESCO. Mumbai is the birthplace of Indian cinema, with the oldest film shot here in 1896. It also boasts of large number of cinemas, including Asia’s largest IMAX dome theater, which feature mainstream Bollywood and Hollywood films. Besides cinemas, the city also hosts various plays and cultural performances. There are also two art galleries: The Jehangir Art Gallery and The National Gallery of Modern Art and a museum, The Prince of Wales Museum in South Mumbai. Built in 1833, the Asiatic Society of Bombay is the oldest public library in the city.
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick (389 AD-461 AD?) is known as the Apostle of Ireland, Christian prelate. His birthplace is uncertain, but it was probably in southwestern Britain; his British name was Succat. At 16 years of age he was carried off by Irish marauders and passed his captivity as a herdsman near the mountain Slemish in County Antrim (according to tradition) or in County Connacht. The young herdsman saw visions in which he was urged to escape, and after six years of slavery he did so, to the northern coast of Gaul. Ordained a priest, possibly by Saint Germanus, at Auxerre, he returned to Ireland. Sometime after 431 AD, Patrick was appointed successor to St. Palladius, First Bishop of Ireland. Patrick concentrated on the west and north of Ireland, establishing his see at Armagh. His two surviving works, written in Latin, demonstrate his acquaintance with the Vulgate translation of the Bible. In The Confessions, he portrays himself as an ignorant yokel in an unequal contest with the powerful and learned adherents of Pelagianism. His reported use of the shamrock as an illustration of the Trinity led to its being regarded as the Irish national symbol. A strange chant of his, called The Lorica, is preserved in the Liber Hymnorum, and what purports to have been a hand-bell he used during mass is shown in the National Museum in Dublin. Ireland held few secular celebrations and parades on Saint Patrick’s Day; however, in 1995 the government of Ireland established the Saint Patrick’s Day Festival with the goal of creating a festival that ranks amongst all of the greatest celebrations in the world.
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