There was no (W)alter-native except the Leopold Cafe on buzzing Colaba Causeway for German Ambassador to India Walter J Lindner, who had an interaction with the press there early Thursday afternoon. He was supposed to focus on talking about initiatives for strengthening Indo-German collaboration, and he did so, but after an easy, breezy introduction, encapsulating his two-day visit to Mumbai.

Venue whys

Explaining his choice of venue Lindner said, “I thought this was better than having a meeting in a sterile hotel room. The mosaic of many colours, noise, multi-faceted personalities here is what Mumbai is. I also wanted to pay a tribute in my own way to the heroes of the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, with Leopold of course, one of the targets of the terror carnage...”