History walk in Byculla (Outdoors)
Byculla to me meant my father heading there once a week, taking a bus all the way from Chembur, to buy vegetables. Over the years, it was a place I passed by, tried to avoid and prayed never to get stuck in. So, a walk through Byculla with kids was something I took on only so that I could, along with the children, discover if there was anything interesting at all in the area other than Rani Baug, the Botanical Garden and the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum (BDL).

We started at the BDL, because how can we not? Mumbai's oldest museum that was built to be one, it was a place the British envisioned to be the seat of high living and culture. To understand Byculla and to figure how it happens to have majestic structures, and broad roads juxtaposed with chawls and factories, one has to understand a bit of Mumbai history and colonial planning.