For those who travel overseas, their first instinct is to walk into an art gallery. But this is something we forget in Mumbai," says art historian Nishita Zachariah, and we concur - with images of our Instagram feed hitting our head. We do fail to understand how entering The Louvre or The Guggenheim turns tourists into art aficionados but when it comes to a gallery in the neighbourhood, only a percentage of those visitors would bat an eye.

Maybe it's because not appreciating things close to home is a glorified trope in popular culture. But Zachariah, along with local historian Alisha Sadikot, has been on a mission to bridge this gap and get people to explore modern and contemporary art in the city's premier galleries through the initiative, Art Walks Mumbai since 2017.