For a few years now, the kids and I head to the Horniman Circle Garden during the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival and for the Sufi festival. This year, we went there before everything started — to simply be there and ‘see’ the regal green dot of South Mumbai surrounded by heritage structures.

The Horniman Circle Garden always looks inviting with its thicket of green and its beautiful, majestic wrought iron gates. The centre of the garden is a fountain. Trees at the Horniman Circle Garden bloom through the year as the original planners carefully chose trees of different flowering seasons.