Graphic Novels and Publications

Untold Water Stories of Navi Mumbai

Untold Water Stories of Navi Mumbai

A children’s graphic novel that explains the planning of Navi Mumbai as a satellite city created to provide a breather to the growing metropolis of Mumbai. Conceptualised by master architect Charles Correa as part of the planning team under CIDCO, Navi Mumbai brought together planned urban development with existing urban villages, wetlands, water systems, and fishing communities.

Told as a pictorial essay on the journey of fish from water to the platter, the story uses Navi Mumbai’s built environment as a backdrop. Through maps, illustrations, and stories of farming and fishing communities such as the Kolis, the book explores the changing relationship between people and water, and how the urban and rural continue to coexist within the city.

This book was translated in Marathi.