We know Kalina as a suburban area for migrants seeking modest dwellings. Delimited by a military camp and an aviation terminal on one end, the region preserves remnants of its history through customs like the making of rotya — an East Indian hand-bread. But neither its churches nor its gullies direct us to a past of paddy fields, rivulets and foxes — kolhe [Marathi for fox] that’s said to have lent the place its name. But it’s in these environs that we spent a sunny day chasing butterflies and listening to magpies whistle. Developed under the joint initiative of the Rotary Club of Bombay, HDFC Bank and landscape design firm Mega Scapes, a biodiversity park in the area hopes to reunite urbanites with nature. 

At: Near Centre for Central Eurasian studies, Mumbai University, Kalina
Time: 7 am to 6 pm