When Mumbaikar Aslam Saiyad hosts the Dahisar River Walk, an interactive session with people, he takes them along the river to show them the culture surrounding it. At the same time, Saiyad, who has been hosting them since 2019 is quite honest with them because it's the best way. He says, “I tell them you all are migrants and you don’t belong to Mumbai.” This is not a way of telling them they are not welcome but for them to understand that the city is older than we know it with people that have been there much before its inner lanes were occupied.

While there are several tourist spots in the city that are really popular, rarely does one get to see or experience the rivers around it because they are surrounded by a concrete jungle, and as cliché as that may sound, there is no better way to put it for a city like Mumbai. “Apart from Dahisar river, there is the Poisar river, Oshiwara river but when they trickle down they only become nallahs, so people don’t know they are rivers.” However, Saiyad’s walks have certainly been a breath of fresh air and an eye-opener for many in the last four years.