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Enjoy games, food and more at a community festival hosted by Kandivali residents
Updated On: 24 January, 2024 07:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Suprita Mitter
The residents of Thakur Village, Kandivali celebrate their neighbourhood with a homegrown festival
Residents work on the upcoming edition of the festival. Pics/Nimesh Dave
At a time when urban Indians can barely claim to know their next-door neighbours, the residents of Thakur Village in Kandivali have been celebrating their neighbourhood and their community with a festival they started nine years ago. The Sarova Street Konnect brings residents together, gets them to bond and to take up community-related initiatives.
“The first Street Konnect that took place was quite different from what it is today. Some of us who were residents, were participants of events already, but for our own buildings or societies. I remember we brought things from our houses and decorated the streets with our dupattas, tables and furniture from our own homes,” shares Shaheen Desai, co-founder of Street Konnect. “It was a crowdfunded event. We spent money from our pockets and expected only 500 people to turn up, but we had a footfall of 3,000 people,” she adds.
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