Over 45,000 residents stay in 70 buildings spread over a sprawling rehabilitation and resettlement community known as Lallubhai compound in Mankhurd. This same space, teeming with life and activity, is also the site of ComplexCity’s curated walks which show people from the rest of Mumbai the other side of their own city.

“The aim is to give diverse people a space to interact with each other,” says Doel Jaikishen, a representative of the Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA), which ComplexCity is a part of. YUVA, a non-profit organisation that aims to provide marginalized urban residents with access to ‘their rights to the city’, has been curating these walks since 2018 to shift the narrative around resettlement colonies. They organise 12 walks a year, six in Lallubhai Compound and six in Malad’s Ambujwadi, to draw attention to the issues of housing and fragmented access to amenities that residents of these areas have been facing.