In Fact & Fiction – Walking with Words

Walk back through the city’s earliest history as a lonely island acquired by traders of the East India Co. and follow its journey from a struggling, fortified town into a crowded, cosmopolitan, trading centre. Next, it’s at the heart of 19th century developments that transformed Bombay into British India’s ‘first city’, and, finally, to its unique post-independence challenges and changes in identity.   On the way, we meet and hear from diarists, novelists and poets who share their experiences of the city now known as Mumbai, in their own voice, as only they can!   From Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Kala Ghoda’s triangle to the Bombay crow, Bombay then to Mumbai now, this walk by the absolutely brilliant Alisha Sadikot is eye-opening.