Pride of the Park

Call it burgeoning awareness or simply, art cropping up in the most unexpected of places. More aptly, call it a pleasant surprise. Our eyebrows shot up and went straight into our hairline on seeing this graffiti on a Shivaji Park building called Tulips House. Espousing equal love, it certainly looks like a statement for the Lesbian Gay Queer Bisexual Transgender (LGBTQ) community, a thumbs-up to diversity.

Painted on the front wall of one of those charming three-storied residential structures just behind the first ring of homes around Shivaji Park, it has a rainbow-like ribbon snaking on the wall, and slogans like Equal Love, Love is Love and Pride. It proves that gestures supporting equality in love is not just a phenomenon in bohemian Bandra or care-a-hoot Colaba but in the stolidly traditional neighbourhood in Dadar, too. We have heard of the adage 'walls have ears', but this proves they have an opinion too, and a pleasingly progressive one at that.