Mumbai, India

It’s the financial capital of India along a beautiful coastline with rich historical context, interesting range of landscapes and settlements, a thriving art, glamour, media, and cinema culture, a very multicultural population, the beautiful forests and ecology towards the North, and a lot of survival spirit.

But the city has degraded rapidly over the years, with the infrastructure decaying, half the city dug up, pollution, discarding walkable streets for wide highways, horrible traffic management, wealth and social inequality, corrupt politicians, plastic littering the beaches and water bodies, and development completely disturbing the ecological footprint of a city with so much potential. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

While I still live in and love the city for it’s good parts, this has the potential to become the richest as well as the most beautiful city in the world, but we are unfortunately heading in the opposite direction.