The Mulji Jetha fountain with the statue of 15-year-old Dharamsee Mulji, in whose memory it was built, atop it. Pic/Datta Kumbhar

When decades of spit, paint and graffiti are painstakingly scraped off, Mumbai will once again be able to gaze upon the magnificent 120-year-old Mulji Jetha fountain – a memorial by a loving father to his only son at Fountain (see box). The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Kala Ghoda Association, which is funding the restoration, promise that this could be as early as December.