There are books that celebrate our home city and its glorious, multi-layered histories, and then there is visual documentation that often doubles up as stunning, almost lyrical love letters that are picked up by Bombayphiles such as us, at the drop of a hat. Changing Perspectives of Bombay: From Early Printmaking to Early Photography is one such unputdownable find that we stumbled upon while on a recent visit to the newly-opened Mumbai Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly, the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India).

Interior of the Caves of Elephanta by Sir Harry Francis Colville Darell. Coloured lithograph