An initiative of documenting Bombay’s Christian heritage

“The more I wrote, the more I realized that there was a pattern to my stories, and that it was turning out to be novella of sorts. I came back to Mumbai in 2016, and jumped headlong into journalism, briefly shelving that book,” she says. It wasn’t until two years later, after she met literary agent, Anish Chandy, who showed interest in the book, that she began relooking at it. By then, she says her interest in the city’s built and intangible heritage had grown manifold, and she was able to make sense of why such a book, which documented the story of a vanishing Catholic neighbourhood over 70 years, was relevant. It made her see Cavel in a different light, which made her look at her novel as an exercise in documentation, even if it was fiction.