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Bombay Brief #9

May 15, 2026

The BMC wants your water, the NCB found everyone's cocaine, and MI is having the kind of season you don't discuss at the office.

Bombay Brief #8

May 7, 2026

The BMC passed its biggest budget ever, Mumbai Indians are having their worst season ever, BEST is raising fares for the first time in seven years, and someone named the Navi Mumbai airport the city's best hope for connectivity while forgetting to build cabs to get there. Business as usual.

Bombay Brief #7

Apr 30, 2026

One woman said what every Mumbaikar has thought, a 1,500-year-old cave is disappearing under a slum, and the city just crossed the 100 km mark on metro.

Bombay Brief #6

Apr 20, 2026

The taps run low, the bankers move in, and Calvin Harris fans discovered that some venues deserve a flood of their own.

Bombay Brief #5

Apr 13, 2026

Seven years, an Antwerp arrest, two new metro lines, and a pair of 3,000-tonne boring machines assembling in Vikhroli. Mumbai kept busy. Here's your week.

Bombay Brief #4

Apr 6, 2026

Mumbai now has a woman running City Hall and a woman running the BMC, for the first time in the city's recorded history. The metro that was supposed to open this week is not opening this week. And for a few days in between, the city's air hit an AQI of 21.

Bombay Brief #3

Mar 30, 2026

MI breaks the curse. Navi Mumbai takes off.

Bombay Brief #2

Mar 22, 2026

Dharavi's clock is ticking, Mumbai is getting a Water Metro, and the building where Indian cinema was born is quietly falling apart in Kala Ghoda. It's been a week.

Bombay Brief #1

Mar 17, 2026

Dharavi redevelopment races ahead, new metro lines drop, and Wicked debuts in Mumbai.