What truly keeps a city alive? How can communities become living archives of their city? Why does watching, listening, recording matter? What will our younger generations inherit (knowingly or not)? Why should we protect our heritage – because it is old, or because it still matters? At #OnceUponACity at Khaki Lab, Fort, writer and publisher Meher Marfatia will have a freewheeling chat with Vinayak Talwar and take on these questions. She will share her unique personal experiences of documenting the many oral histories that bring alive Mumbai, through the sources who help her do this best – its ordinary people.
About the speakers
A journalist for over forty years, Meher Marfatia is a former Assistant Editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India and the text editor of several leading art and lifestyle publications, including Marg, The Art India Magazine and Verve. She has represented India at writers’ residencies in the Internationales Institut fur Journalismus in Berlin (1989) and the Seeds of Peace camp in Maine (2011). Meher currently works as a freelance writer and independent publisher. Her imprint, 49/50 Books, focuses on lesser-known aspects of communities and cultures. She has authored Laughter in the House: 20th-Century Parsi Theatre and co-published the phrase book Parsi Bol with Sooni Taraporevala. Once Upon a City is her most recent book, inspired by her popular ongoing Sunday Mid-day column, which sees her document oral histories of Bombay neighbourhoods.
Vinayak Talwar is an Ambassador of Mumbai with Khaki Tours. A Delhi-ite who has been living in Mumbai since 2015, he lives, eats and breathes Mumbai.
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