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Mumbai continues to evolve through personal tributes, cultural moments, and daily challenges. From viral gestures of respect to heatwave disruptions and quiet shifts in lifestyle, the city’s pulse is shaped by both public events and private choices.
Across Mumbai this Ganeshotsav, idol-makers are blending anime references, AI-generated designs and Instagram strategy into a festival that used to run on family craft and word of mouth alone.
Mumbai's Ganeshotsav pandals are opening their doors to strays this year, with a Colaba mandal casting its idol as Kaalbhairav and a Kandivali mandal running vaccination and microchipping camps for street dogs.
Mumbai's Ganeshotsav brings its tallest idol yet at 42 feet, but three tall-idol collapses during arrival processions this year, two of them fatal, have renewed calls for the state to cap idol height for good.
Rani Mukerji received the Raj Kapoor Special Contribution Award at the 62nd Maharashtra State Film Awards in Mumbai, delivering part of her acceptance speech in Marathi and calling the city her identity.
Shashank Patil's Rewired! and Padma Shashank Patil's Walk With Me Across the World were launched together in Mumbai on September 5, drawing former Times Network chief M.K. Anand among the guests.
Riteish Deshmukh recounts how a Mumbai paparazzo, later identified as Sushil Mohite, paid Rs 100 for him when he had no cash to buy something from a child outside a restaurant.