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On April 24th, we brought the City Mixer to Mumbai, in continued collaboration with the Charles Correa Foundation and Nagari Short Films. We opened with a simple question: name a street, a corner, or a spot in the city that feels truly yours, and why. It drew out specific, lived-in answers, and did something more deliberate: it located people in the city before asking them to step outside it.

The three films that followed took the conversation to Dhobi Talao (Mumbai), Guwahati, and Delhi, tracing how cities are shaped through ongoing negotiation over space, ecology, and infrastructure. Two of the three stories were not about Mumbai, yet the room did not treat them as distant. Reflections from Sarah Zia, Sudhanshu Patra, and Anubhav Borgohain helped hold this movement across contexts, drawing connections while also pushing on the limits of those comparisons.

What is beginning to emerge across these mixers is not a shared set of answers, but a shared way of reading cities. Each context changes how the others are understood, and that feels like where something useful is starting to take shape.