Bombay

The Pao of Love: Stories of romance from Mumbai's nooks and crannies, retold on Instagram

The Pao of Love, an Instagram page capturing how Mumbai likes its romance, has managed to squeeze stories out of the city’s promenades and back alleys, packaged as one-minute-reads for a social media-dependent readership. Although some submissions to the page are about love that is as wounding as comforting, it is stories of romantic love that hold the series together. After navigating the thorny terrains of intimacy, the series often leaves a lingering sense of hope behind, sometimes meditative, bereft of the initial bitterness of heartbreak.

Kolis, Mumbai's aboriginal fishing community, gets a retrospective look with a pop-up museum in Thane

The exhibition was put up by the Tandel Fund of Archives — a public art project and a pool of archives which aims to gather and document information of the Son Koli communities in and around Mumbai

Dharavi's Kala Qilla, weathered by time and negligence, lives on due to local community's effort

Though cracks have developed in its walls, Dharavi's Kala Qilla stands tall because of the local people's resolve to keep it clean and ensure it is not encroached upon. Many of them have fond memories of the fort, and legends about ghosts that haunt it and hidden tunnels exist too

Paper Jewels: Exhibition charts journey of postcards across country under British Raj

An exhibition titled Paper Jewels, curated by historian Omar Khan traces the journey postcards through the major metropolitan cities of colonial India

Paris, Mumbai explored in conversations through poetry, illustrations and rail networks

The latest book 'Over and Underground in Paris & Mumbai' presents a garland of personal insights of poets Sampurna Chattarji and Karthika Nair along with illustrators Joelle Jolivet and Roshni Vyam threaded by the metropolises' rail networks which form a recurring motif in the narrative.

7 Isles Unclaimed or the Mumbai That Could Have Been

7 Isles Unclaimed digs into Bombay's reclamation, the colonial project that converted seven islands — the Isle of Bombay, Colaba, Old Woman's Island (Little Colaba), Mahim, Mazagaon, Parel and Worli — into something closer to the peninsular shape that appears on maps today.

This Christmas, St Thomas Cathedral, a church that grew up with Mumbai, marks its 300th anniversary

The first place of public worship for the followers of the Anglican Church came up on Christmas day, 300 years ago, in the form of St Thomas’ Church.

Sunil Gavaskar and 'anti-Mumbai bias': Indian cricket would be well-served if its strongest voices aren't laced with regional overtones

Just when Indian cricket seemed to have got past the baggage that decades of parochialism brought along, we have been reminded that even the most powerful influences can be susceptible to such thinking.

Tata Literature Live 2018: On Day 4, the discussions get political with Arun Shourie, Priyanka Pathak-Narain, Lionel Shriver

The last day of Tata Literature Live ended on a political note. It’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the country at this moment and quite a few panellists used the stage to talk about it.

Images: Asia's most polluted playgrounds

For most Mumbaikars, the sight of children played in a dump doesn't come as a shock. But polluted playgrounds are reality all over in Asia.