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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalOn a dusty street in the city of Mumbai a girl encounters a plant and befriends it. Together they seek the answers to the ideal city and find their way to a garden. What is it that they find in the garden? How will they trace the journey of the complexity of urban development issues and the environmental paradoxes involved? Let’s find out.
Kalyani Majumdar
Kalyani Majumdar is a writer, photo-essayist and Heritologist. She has written essays and features on architecture, art, culture and urban issues for various magazines such as the Indian edition of Domus, Domus Italy, India Today, Marwar and so on. She was also the former Senior Assistant Editor for Domus India. She holds a Master’s Degree in Conservation and Heritage Management and is a nature enthusiast. She has worked on development projects in the High Himalayan regions to create awareness through setting up rural Interpretation centres on cultural and natural heritage of the region.
When GVK-MIAL conceived the idea of bringing out a book on the GVK Botanical Garden inside the Mumbai airport, the idea was to generate awareness among the city dwellers on the importance of creating a synergy between urban development and environment. So, when the author got involved in the book project she had to visit the airport a number of times to understand the concept behind GVK Botanical Garden. And, as many times as she visited the garden inside the airport her belief on the possibility of a green future for Indian cities grew stronger. She was amazed and inspired by the meticulous, thoughtful and organised approach that the GVK team has taken to create this magnanimous project by giving the city of Mumbai an edifice that is not only a well-designed airport with stellar service but also a botanical garden that exemplifies the very idea that a city cannot be sustainable without adequate green spaces and that our engagement with nature is of paramount importance.
