The persistence of Abha Narain Lambah, conservation architect and member of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC), and late historian Sharada Dwivedi, finally placed Marine Drive and the Oval Maidan Art Deco precint on India’s tentative list of entries to the UNESCO World Heritage List, on June 2012. “Making it to the tentative list was a big achievement. But every year, the country can only make one entry to the cultural heritage list. So we have to fight to make it to the final one,” says Lambah.