Mumbai has and continues to be a subject and theme for several authors, artists and poets, past and present. Interestingly, the first biography about the city was written back in 1863 by Govind Narayan in Marathi, and was titled Mumbaiche Varnan (The Description of Mumbai). Narayan’s title gave details about the city’s daily life and the constant changes it faced in the nineteenth century. Now, Mulund resident and scholar Murali Ranganathan has translated this text into English titled, Govind Narayan’s Mumbai.

A photograph of Walkeshwar Temple complex with Banganga Tank from the book