Saffron flags, a dhol-tasha pathak, and an orchestra with loudspeakers marked the procession that wound its way through the bylanes of Jogeshwari East on Sunday morning. It passed through Meghwadi, IT Colony Road, Shyam Nagar, and behind Radhabai Chawl — locales mentioned in the Srikrishna Commission inquiry report on the 1992-93 riots.

(Left) Rahim Mubarak Tamboli with his father Mubarak Babalal Tamboli

But the riots were not even a memory for the processionists, most of whom were born after 1993. As they passed through a Muslim locality, the music was silenced on the instructions of Shivaji Khairnar, head of the Shyam Nagarcha Raja Ganeshotsav Mandal. “It’s Muharram, they are in mourning,” explained the 43-year-old, who observes a fast of one day during every Ramzan.