For any daily user of the M-indicator app of the city’s suburban railway system, the chats can be a quirky, funny experience. Every once in a while, a message by a friendly commuter warning another about the location of a Ticket Collector on a certain station, will pop up. 

This is the ‘invisible network’ that artist Ranjit Kandalgaonkar refers to when addressing the functioning of the city. Having lived in Mumbai all of his life, Kandalgaonkar began documenting these little observations of the city’s unspoken rules and the people living within those invisible lines. These find their way into his latest exhibition, cityinflux that opened for the Mumbai Gallery Weekend, earlier this month.