Visual and textual artists show how Mumbai's urbanism is shifting

'The Shifting City' reflects without much judgement the refashioning of Mumbai's spaces

What images best represent Mumbai? The architectural marvels in the sea-kissed southern reaches of the city that the hop-on-hop-off tour buses like to show off? “If you’ve newly arrived here, the ‘South Bombay’ romance lasts for a week or so,” says photographer Ritesh Uttamchandani. “Then you start living in Kandivali or work somewhere like Kurla. A lot of people don’t even see the sea for six months or a year.” His recent depictions of Mumbai focus on more granular local phenomena, unfolding in the corners and in-between spaces of suburbia. Indeed, migrations are increasingly being recorded not into the southern