Agripada
In her Building No. 3 room of the 107-year-old BIT (Bombay Improvement Trust) Chawl on Madhavrao Gangan Marg, Shubhangi Jadhav offers me deliciously cool rose doodh on a sweltering hot afternoon. "The 1992-93 riots shattered our peace. But when curfew shut shops, kind Memons supplied us bread and milk," she says. Vithabai Gaikwad next door adds, "We try to be one, though things are changing."

Babulnath: Siri Road
Flowering in the rain and fruiting in winter, the Stocking Tree is unique to Siri Road, not found elsewhere in the city. Its fruit stocking-shaped, the originally South American tree leans against a chawl wall....The Duke of Wellington lived on Siri Road as Colonel Arthur Wellesley, in Surrey Cottage, owned by Seth Cursetjee Manockjee—the Khada Parsi of the famed Byculla statue. The student Eton wrote off as "not at all a book boy and rather dull" went on to vanquish Napoleon at Waterloo and lead England as Prime Minister twice, in 1828 and 1834.