Jane Borges

As the city continues to transform through an aggressive infrastructure push, archivists, artists and researchers documenting its built and intangible heritage are showing us how to remember what will soon be lost

The revival of Poetry Circle 2.0 in August last year, and, much before that collectives and movements such as Poetry in Parks, The Bombay Poetry Crawl, The Manch and Poetrification by The Hoshruba Repertory, among others, continue to draw attention to both verse and the verse-maker

Led by the BMC as part of its master plan to transform the Ballard Pier-Colaba precinct into a walkable district, the newly inaugurated Phase One

Led by the BMC as part of its master plan to transform the Ballard Pier-Colaba precinct into a walkable district, the newly inaugurated Phase One of the project, executed at the cost of ₹8 crore, involved revamping Dr VB Gandhi Marg and three other adjoining streets

As Mumbai evolves, architect Rahul Mehrotra says its elite have lost the vision to build a good society—but believes the city can still change course.

India, July 19 -- It's been less than 24 hours since VB Gandhi Marg in Kala Ghoda, where architect-urbanist-educator Rahul Mehrotra's studio is located, was cordoned off.

MUMBAI, July 20 -- It's been less than 24 hours since VB Gandhi Marg in Kala Ghoda, where architect-urbanist-educator Rahul Mehrotra's studio is located, was cordoned off.

Gen Z and millennials have embraced AI for everything from career advice to emotional support. Now they're using it to map the cosmos and decipher their fate. But can AI really predict the future?

Can a novelist be obsessed with a place as with their characters? It's a question that comes to mind while reading Urdu writer Rahman Abbas's 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel Rohzin (translated by Sabika Abbas Naqvi), which, beyond a love story, is also a paean to Abbas's home city, Mumbai, and its many contradictions. In the novel, he describes Mumbai as “a well”. “It quenches all thirsts. It is true that so many simply drown in this well,” he writes.

Remembered for her short story collections, Nisha also inspired an entire generation to fall in love with books as a professor of literature