Meher Marfatia is a city chronicler who captures Mumbai’s past and present in prose, photos, and videos, so future generations will always have this collective history to look back on

Of serendipity and suggestibility… starting with the street where I live

Veteran mahjong players and teachers share their views on Bombay’s current craze for the game

A run-through of personal favourite Eureka moments from the last year which featured on these pages

How did a Tata family visionary survive a Mediterranean Sea shipwreck and gift Bombay some premier public service institutions?

A lesser known Bandra village lane deserves some attention to its history and inhabitants as it shines quietly for Christmas

Put your hands together for the cheeriest gift of the season — the inaugural edition of Pudding, an anthology uniquely mirroring the suburb we all love

Multi-instrumentalist and founder of the Pops Symphony Orchestra, Josic Menzie tutored hundreds of city youngsters to enjoy and excel at music, even performing prodigiously across the world

Teacher extraordinaire, Jini Dinshaw offered generations of musicians a platform with the Bombay Chamber Orchestra which she founded — and survives as the city’s longest-running Western classical music ensemble

In the month marking Columbus Day, we trace some of the city’s Spanish connections on wide-ranging fronts

Meher Marfatia

Mid-Day Anniversary: Time travel with the city’s memory-keeper

Chance meetings and goodbye greetings

New tales of the tiles

Past forward to January 2026

A voyage to remember… 110 years on

Lights up on Boran

‘Pudding is like Bandra, how can you not love it?’

Chopin and chocolates at Little Flower

Thank you for the music magic ‘Ms Jini’

Mumbai se Madrid, Bombay se Barcelona

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