"I look for connections that are different,” stated columnist and journalist Meher Marfatia, speaking at the launch of her book Once upon a city: Making the little stories of Mumbai matter in the gardens of the David Sassoon Library on February 8, 2020. The volume is a compilation of 50 of her fortnightly columns on Bombay’s neighborhoods that appeared in mid-day over the last four years. While the book has its share of "baronets and other South Bombay folk,” Marfatia was appreciative of lesser known people who shared their personal reminiscences and opened their doors to her while she was......