Imagine Mumbai as it existed in the 1800s, at a time when viral Internet ads were still fiction. So, if a boat had to sail from Bombay to Ratnagiri in the wee hours of the morning, how did the sailors advertise it? “The port had employed a boy, who would run around making the announcement. Now imagine the mind of this young announcer and write a story about it,” suggests children’s author and naturalist Deepak Dalal. At Dalal’s Weaving Tales workshop next Sunday, children will find a chance to encounter more such historical fiction and breathe life into the city of yore.