Everytime I alight at Lower Parel station and walk towards my office, the high-rise buildings hover over my head. Often, my thoughts sink into the 1990s era where much shorter mills stood, fully functional, spinning cotton, creating bundles and bundles of fabric and keeping the Bombay communities employed.

Starting today, at Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Byculla, Social Fabric — an exhibition in collaboration with Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London and supported by the Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai — opens.