A few days ago, as we scoured around town for engaging, offbeat stories with an Independence Day connect, the mention of an Independence Day walk organised by a group that conducts city trails intrigued us. Soon, a team member was off to experience this route meant to showcase several landmarks that were integral to Mumbai’s role in the freedom movement.

While it was good to note that at least someone was thinking of highlighting these oft-forgotten epitaphs of our struggle for independence, we were hoping that the map would have more than just four to five pit stops. Of course, our grouse wasn’t against the group that conducted the walk. That was the good bit. It wasn’t comforting to learn that a city, which was at the heart of the freedom struggle, could not display more such vignettes that were witness to history in the making.