Over the past two years, most of Dr Laetitia Zecchini’s days and nights have been spent finding the right words to flood the imagination of the French with the patois of Mumbai.

The original lines are poet Arun Kolatkar’s, written over almost two decades, and are filled with tales of the one-eyed ogress, the pi-dog (“the only sign of intelligent life on the planet one morning”) at Kala Ghoda.