Praakritik: Making Chemical-free Pantry Staples in Mumbai
A Mumbai-based brand sourcing produce from farmers across India who do not use any pesticides or chemical inputs for cultivation.
Mumbai
From Tamil Nadu to Mumbai’s Jari Mari, Kanji is a Story of Dalit Sustenance
Kanji is a verb, not just the name of a dish, asserts Pooja Ashokkumar as she traces the fermented rice-and-water dish's relevance through the migration of her community.
A Mumbai Without Pav?
Changing regulations and a shortage of gas supply affects not only Mumbai's bakeries, but also the demographic that relies on them for its daily bread.
What Mumbai’s Liminal Coastal Spaces Stand to Lose
Through a series of photographs taken over the last seven years, Gautam Doshi illustrates the many relationships Mumbaikars share with the sea—of grieving, playing, working, loving.
Hook, Line, and Thinker: A Quiz Night with ChefTZac
A pub quiz brought Mumbai’s coastal stories, indigenous Koli knowledge, and the documentary ‘Against the Tide’ into one lively night with ChefTZac.
Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
Reported by journalist Soumya Roy over the span of a decade, ‘Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings’ sheds light on the waste mountains of Deonar, Mumbai, and the many lives that revolv…
“They’ve started dumping cement there. It results in smaller, less meaty oysters that take longer to form”
—Ratna and Alka, Koli fisherwomen, Mumbai
“The BMC, police, courts, don’t belong to us; we only have each other”
—Naveen Yadav, a street vendor and activist in Mumbai, to whom running his stall is a political act.
Ganesh Nakhawa on Why He Won’t Be the Last Fisherman of Mumbai
Fisherman-activist Ganesh Nakhawa talks to us about navigating tradition and technology, the shrinking coastlines of Mumbai, and what keeps him tied to the sea as a Koli fisherman.