Fascination with milestones, remnants of a more leisurely world that marked the distance of prominent spots in Bombay from the then zero-point St Thomas’ Cathedral in the Fountain area has led to blogs that document each milestone, with pictures and GPS locations. There is also a WhatsApp group "where members swap information, pictures and indulge in marker banter,” states a report in The Times of India (TOI) of April 9, 2017.
Dr Simin Patel, a city historian who runs bombaywalla.org has located eight such milestones. "Watch my blog,” she smiles. Heritage enthusiast Saleem Ahmadullah, whose mother was Parsi notes in......