This paper featured a report about the uptick we have seen during pandemic times in wall art for the city. There are definitely more walls across Mumbai, painted over, either with socially meaningful messages or simply aesthetically, to give them a facelift and hopefully make them more appealing to the public. The Cooperage Stadium wall has been painted in black ’n’ white to revive the good ol’ days in what was then Bombay.

We must reflect on how walls are used shoddily and with total disrespect. City walls are used as open-air toilets with men peeing against them with abandon. A number of signs ordering people to desist from this unhygienic, and criminal practice go unheeded. Then, there is the general disrepair and dilapidation that is taken for granted. How many times have we read reports of a tragedy, because of a wall collapse? Very often, is the answer, pointing to the fact that they are built out of low-grade material or, those responsible have failed to repair and strengthen them.