Much as we like to think of ourselves as an art-loving society, art doesn’t seem to have found a place for itself in this city.

Take the Sachin Tendulkar art installation created by Mumbai artiste, Jaideep Mehrotra. The metallic sculpture of cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, titled Between the Lines, was first installed at a junction in Worli. After that, it moved to the Marine Drive promenade. There, certain citizen’s groups objected to it and it was uprooted. It was supposed to be installed on the Carter Road promenade at Bandra, but a residents’ association opposed it on the grounds that it eats into the space on the promenade.