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“If you take the Bangladeshi out of me, there’s no cultural context to my existence. If you take my sexuality out of me, there’s no context for my reasons to love someone. And if you take the Muslim out of me, I have no spiritual context. These three are very fundamental to my existence. But who gets to see all three of them at one time?”

Over the years, a lot of attempts have been made to quantify the vastness of Mumbai into a couple of lines. The struggle is coalescing such a detailed mosaic of neighbourhoods vibrant enough to be their own cities into one simple slogan to slap onto a tourism brochure or Instagram bio.

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