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  • In 2001, when they finished building, this development was so new they weren't even memories of stands of trees in these parts, they had come out of the developer's head as he blueprinted the cul-de-sacs and by-lanes.

    For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

  • This put us right into the private space of citizens - we had access to the narrowest by-lanes that intersect the slums and tenements of South Mumbai, and it allowed us interact face-to-face with the famous spirit of Mumbai.

    Banking Lessons from the Campaign Trail Meera Sanyal 2009

  • The first-ever Bollywood kung fu comedy, “Chandni Chowk to China† follows one man’s passage from simple cook to kung fu fighter, on a thrilling, madcap journey from the by-lanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi, India, to the grandeur of the Great Wall of China and beyond.

    Widest Ever US Release for a Bollywood Film Coming Next Week | We Are Movie Geeks 2009

  • What else can one say but that there seems to be a spell at work that is making us blind to something so straight and simple and instead dragging the whole thing into twisted lanes and by-lanes of endless debates, accuses and abuses.

    Angiras is patently partisan. May Kepler deliver Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • What else can one say but that there seems to be a spell at work that is making us blind to something so straight and simple and instead dragging the whole thing into twisted lanes and by-lanes of endless debates, accuses and abuses.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • A street dweller taking a siesta with his companions in the by-lanes of Fort.

    Afternoon Siesta Abodh 2007

  • A street dweller taking a siesta with his companions in the by-lanes of Fort.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Abodh 2007

  • Walking through the lanes and by-lanes of Chowk and Aminabad one finds Lucknow of yore.

    Kababs with Nawabs 2007

  • In the meanwhile Messrs. Evans and Morgans were riding away, as fast as the rough by-lanes would let them, along the fresh coast of the bay, steering carefully clear of Northam town on the one hand, and on the other, of Portledge, where dwelt that most Protestant justice of the peace, Mr. Coffin.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Fleet Street, after a circuitous passage through several by-lanes and courts.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

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