EditorialIndia: Hasnabad Dargah, a Mughal-style mausoleum in Mazgaon, Mumbai, somewhat reminiscent of the famous Taj Mahal. Built to house the tomb of the 1st Aga Khan (Aga Khan I), Shah Hasan Ali Shah (1804-81), who settled in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1844
EditorialIndia: A frieze depicting Nusserwanjee (Nesserwanjee) Maneckjee Petit (1827-1891), Nesserwanjee M. Petit Charitable Dispensary, founded in 1893 in Nanubhai Desai Road, Bombay (Mumbai)
EditorialIndia: Statue of Doctor Acacio Gabriel Viegas (1856 - 1933), erected in 1936, Dhobi Talao area, Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Doctor Viegas was President of the Bombay Municipal Corporation (1906-7), and credited with the early discovery of bubonic plague in
EditorialIndia: The sarcophagus of Reverend Thomas Carr (1788 - 1859), the first bishop of Bombay (today Mumbai), St. Thomas Cathedral, Fort, Mumbai. Monument sculpted by Matthew Noble (1817 - 1876)
EditorialIndia: Bust of David Sassoon (1792 - 1864), Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla, Mumbai. As a Baghdadi Jew and a wealthy entrepreneur, Sassoon was the leader of the Jewish community in Bombay
EditorialIndia: View from Horniman Circle Gardens towards the landmark red Bombay Samachar (Mumbai Samachar) building housing the offices of India's oldest newspaper, the Gujarati-language Mumbai Samachar, established in 1822
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