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Mumbai has shops your grandparents shopped at. Most of them are still open.Same family. Same recipes. Same lanes — somet...
28/05/2026

Mumbai has shops your grandparents shopped at. Most of them are still open.

Same family. Same recipes. Same lanes — sometimes the same furniture.

9 we verified are currently operating:

01 · Pancham Puriwala · Behind CST · 1840s
02 · Joshi Mahim Halwawala · Mahim · early 1800s
03 · Phillips Antiques · Colaba · 1860
04 · Kyani & Co. · Dhobi Talao · 1904
05 · Sassanian Boulangerie · Marine Lines · 1913
06 · Café Excelsior · Fort · 1919
07Mumbai has shops your grandparents shopped at. Most of them are still open.
Same family. Same recipes. Same lanes — sometimes the same furniture.
10 we verified are currently operating:
01 · Pancham Puriwala · Behind CST · 1840s
02 · Joshi Mahim Halwawala · Mahim · early 1800s
03 · Phillips Antiques · Colaba · 1860
04 · Kyani & Co. · Dhobi Talao · 1904
05 · Sassanian Boulangerie · Marine Lines · 1913
06 · Café Excelsior · Fort · 1919
07 · Britannia & Co. · Ballard Estate · 1923
08 · Panshikar Mithaiwale · Dadar · 1925
09 · K. Rustom & Co. · Churchgate · 1953

Mumbai keeps changing. Some shops just decided they wouldn’t.

📌 Save this for your next South Bombay walk.
💬 Comment which one your family has been visiting the longest.

Mumbai isn’t a green city.But it has more green than most Mumbaikars realise — and most of it is invisible from the road...
21/05/2026

Mumbai isn’t a green city.

But it has more green than most Mumbaikars realise — and most of it is invisible from the road.

▸ Sanjay Gandhi National Park — 104 sq km of forest, inside the city. Bigger than the entire Island City of Mumbai.

▸ Aarey — 1,287 hectares of forest, grassland and dairy land between Goregaon and Powai. 4 lakh+ trees. Resident leopards.

▸ Mangroves — 6,600 hectares along the coast. A third of all the mangroves in Maharashtra. Mahim, Versova, Malad, Bhandup, Sewri, Thane creek.

▸ 30 lakh street trees, per BMC’s last census. Mostly in the suburbs. The greenest ward (Ghatkopar N) has 50x more trees than the sparsest (Marine Lines).

📌 Save this — find your nearest green pocket.



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Mumbai is the financial capital of India. 22 lakh people work in finance here.But most of the best conversations don’t h...
15/05/2026

Mumbai is the financial capital of India. 22 lakh people work in finance here.

But most of the best conversations don’t happen in office Slack channels.
They happen in communities — open, free, and full of people two years ahead of you.

10 we verified are currently active:

01 · CFA Society India — Mumbai Chapter

02 · 100 Women in Finance — India

03 · Mumbai Angels Network

04 · Indian Angel Network .vc

05 · JITO Angel Network

06 · TiE Mumbai

07 · Bogleheads India

08 · Global Fintech Fest

09 · 1% Club

10 · LXME

No degree, no pedigree, no minimum salary. Just show up.

📌 Save for the next time you want to grow your network.

💬 Comment which one you’d join first — and which Mumbai community I should add to V3.

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Mumbai’s biggest AI room is being built. And we got you 30% off to be in it.We’re a Community Partner for Mumbai Tech We...
08/05/2026

Mumbai’s biggest AI room is being built. And we got you 30% off to be in it.

We’re a Community Partner for Mumbai Tech Week 2026 — and this one is actually worth your time.

Here’s what’s happening at MTW:

→ Live demos from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Swiggy & more
→ AI-powered job fair — 500+ offers from 50+ companies
→ Hands-on masterclasses with tools shaping what we build
→ Early-stage startup pitches live on stage

📍 Jio World Convention Centre | May 29–30

🎟️ Use code ALLTHINGSMUMBAI for 30% off
⏰ Offer expires May 15th — link in bio

Builder, developer, founder, investor, or student — if AI is your world, this is the room to be in.

Mumbai’s tap water travels up to 175 km before it reaches you.7 lakes. 5,650 km of pipes. 2 treatment plants. 28 undergr...
07/05/2026

Mumbai’s tap water travels up to 175 km before it reaches you.

7 lakes. 5,650 km of pipes. 2 treatment plants. 28 underground reservoirs. 3,950 million litres moved across hills, valleys, tunnels, and forests — every single day.

Most of us never think about it. We just turn on a tap.

Mumbai’s water system is 160 years old. Parts of it were laid by the British.

That it still works for 22 million people is one of the city’s quiet miracles.

Sources: MCGM Annual Report · BMC Hydraulic Engineering · India Water Portal

₹80,952 crore.That’s Mumbai’s BMC budget for 2026-27. Bigger than the GDP of Bhutan. Larger than the budgets of Goa, Sik...
03/05/2026

₹80,952 crore.

That’s Mumbai’s BMC budget for 2026-27.
Bigger than the GDP of Bhutan.
Larger than the budgets of Goa, Sikkim and Tripura combined.

And 60% of it — ₹48,164 crore — is going into building things.

🌊 ₹6,200 Cr for Coastal Road Phase 2
🌉 ₹9,650 Cr for bridges
💧 ₹6,475 Cr for water (incl. Manori desalination + Gargai Dam)
🏥 ₹7,456 Cr for healthcare
🎓 ₹3,955 Cr for education

One of the largest urban infrastructure pipelines in the world. Save this for the next time someone asks where Mumbai’s money goes.

Source: BMC Budget Speech 2026-27 · mcgm.gov.in

We’re proud to be a Community Partner for Mumbai Tech Week 2026 🙌MTW is bringing together 10,000+ founders, builders and...
28/04/2026

We’re proud to be a Community Partner for Mumbai Tech Week 2026 🙌

MTW is bringing together 10,000+ founders, builders and investors — but this year, it’s not just talks.
The theme is AI in Action:
live demos, real showcases from companies like Meta, Anthropic, Neysa, MakeMyTrip, Swiggy and more, an AI-powered job fair and hands-on masterclasses with the tools actually shaping what we build.

Two days. Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai. May 29–30.

As part of the community, you get 30% off with promo code ALLTHINGSMUMBAI.

⏰ Offer ends May 10th

If you want to see AI in Action — not just hear about it — this is the place to be.

Grab your pass — link in bio 🔗

You saved the last one 2K times. So we made you another.Mumbai is a city of over 2 crore people — but if you’ve ever fel...
26/04/2026

You saved the last one 2K times. So we made you another.

Mumbai is a city of over 2 crore people — but if you’ve ever felt lonely here, you know that population numbers don’t equal connection. The fix isn’t moving cities. It’s finding your tribe.

Here are 10 more communities Mumbai is hiding in plain sight.
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The truth: Mumbai doesn’t owe you a community. You have to show up to find one.

But once you do, this city has a way of holding you.

📌 Save this — for the day you finally decide to stop scrolling and start showing up.

🔁 Share with that one friend who keeps saying “I want to meet new people but I don’t know how.”

💬 Comment the community you’d add to V3 — we read every reply.

Follow for more on how Mumbai actually works.

After 25 years of failed tenders, Dharavi’s redevelopment is finally moving from plan to pavement.Here’s what’s genuinel...
24/04/2026

After 25 years of failed tenders, Dharavi’s redevelopment is finally moving from plan to pavement.

Here’s what’s genuinely happening in 2026:

✅ ₹95,790 crore officially committed — the largest slum rehabilitation investment India has ever seen

✅ 50,000+ door-to-door surveys completed, an SRA record

✅ 1.5 lakh tenements mapped (vs. just 60,000 in the 2007 survey) — nobody’s being left out of the count

✅ 75% of Sector 6 residents qualified for new homes in the first eligibility list

✅ 11,000 rehab units break ground post-monsoon this year — the first real construction after decades of promises

✅ 118 acres in Malad handed over in Feb 2026. More parcels coming.

The most inclusive slum redevelopment India has ever attempted:
→ Free 350 sq ft homes for pre-2000 residents (inside Dharavi itself)
→ Subsidised 300 sq ft homes at just ₹2.5 lakh for 2000-2011 residents
→ Hire-purchase ownership for upper-floor residents — historically the first group excluded from any slum scheme in India
→ Every commercial unit gets space inside Dharavi, eligible or not
For context: under standard SRA projects, anyone living above the ground floor gets zero. This project is rewriting that rulebook.

What’s genuinely hard: a project this massive — 1 million people, 10,000 businesses, $1 billion economy — will have friction. Some relocation sites are contested. Documentation is complex. Every major stakeholder has valid concerns to raise.

But for the first time in 25 years, Dharavikars have a concrete path to legal ownership, modern amenities, and dignified housing. That’s not small.

Watch this space — what happens in Dharavi over the next 18 months will shape how every Indian city thinks about informal settlements for the next 30 years.

📍 Urban Patterns

Everyone compares Mumbai and Bangalore rent. Nobody frames it as a career investment.Yes, Mumbai costs more. A comparabl...
21/04/2026

Everyone compares Mumbai and Bangalore rent.

Nobody frames it as a career investment.

Yes, Mumbai costs more. A comparable 2BHK in Mumbai runs ₹30–40K more per month than Bangalore. Your monthly surplus is smaller. Your rent-to-income ratio is worse.

In years 0–5, Bangalore wins on every single number.

But here’s what the data says that nobody is talking about:

The Mumbai finance premium doesn’t kick in at year 15. It kicks in at year 5–6.
At a global bank — Goldman, JPM, Morgan Stanley — a VP at year 6 is looking at ₹60–140 LPA total comp.

The annual cash bonus alone can match a Bangalore senior engineer’s full base salary. By Director level, the gap becomes ₹90–220 LPA vs ₹55–95 LPA. By MD, it’s not even a comparison anymore.

The total “career tuition” you pay Mumbai in years 0–5? Around ₹48 lakhs in extra rent and foregone savings. At VP comp, you break even in under a year.

The caveat — and this matters: This holds for global bank careers specifically. Domestic banks narrow the gap significantly. And if you’re in tech, Bangalore wins on every metric, every year. This isn’t a universal argument for Mumbai — it’s a specific argument for a specific career path.

The question was never which city is more affordable.
It’s which version of your future you’re betting on.

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