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25/01/2026

What happens when a pothole forms on a road, vehicles keep driving over it, nobody fixes it, and the city learns to live with it?

It has often been observed that one citizen steps up and fills the pothole themselves. They don’t file an RTI and wait for months, or seek approval from institutions to do the job. They pour gravel, patch it, and the road becomes usable again.

They had no qualifications to fill that pothole. It wasn’t even their job. But isn’t this what it means to be a citizen? To have a sense of duty towards your surroundings, starting from home?

A Republic is not only a government. A Republic is also responsible citizenship, which acts when institutions do not.

In the case with Bombay Boundaries, the pothole, the void of information and clarity on locality boundaries, was city-sized. So huge and so old that the people of this city didn’t even know they were navigating one, or worse, learnt to live with it. And no institution ever took responsibility.

Therefore, as a citizen and resident of this city, I researched, uncovered, defined and mapped them, compiling these boundaries into Bombay Boundaries: Mumbai’s First Atlas of Precise Locality Boundaries.

Bombay Boundaries is a 107-locality civic atlas built through research, fieldwork and documentation. It exists simply because the city needed a reference, and nobody made one in 500 years.

Maybe this is what being a Republic feels like. For a city to be mapped by its citizens, not its institutions, when the need was overdue and nobody paid heed.

Bombay Boundaries’ second impression releases tomorrow on Amazon.
Happy Republic Day. 🇮🇳

11/12/2025

The cover of Bombay Boundaries: Mumbai’s First Atlas of Precise Locality Boundaries.

Rendered in white, the cover follows a restrained typographic and colour discipline for clarity, longevity, trust, and archival coherence.

The centrepiece of the cover is a minimalistic outline map of Greater Mumbai, designed by the author to mirror the same boundary language that runs through Bombay Boundaries. Every curve and contour traces the city's true extent. The map's monochrome treatment echoes the aesthetic restraint of old survey sheets, while centering the city as both subject and symbol. This artwork captures Mumbai as both map and metaphor – defined yet fluid, complete yet open. The composition allows the city itself to become the face of the atlas, setting the tone for what follows within Bombay Boundaries.

The cover's aesthetic rejects spectacle in favour of steadiness, built to endure handling and history alike. The typographic and chromatic choice was made to preserve legibility across decades, so that the atlas may age as gracefully as the city it documents.

Thus, the synthesis of all elements – typography, map and palette – expresses the book's design philosophy: archival, not ornamental. In spirit, Bombay Boundaries belongs closer to a record than a coffee-table volume: a fusion between a 1930 atlas of London and a 2025 atlas of Mumbai, crafted to be referenced, read, and remembered.

Hand and map outline sketch on the back cover: .

launches on 31 December 2025.
20 days to go.

06/12/2025

Mumbai's biggest city boundary mapping exercise in 500 years – presenting the Table of Contents pages from Bombay Boundaries: Mumbai's First Atlas of Precise Locality Boundaries.

The term 'locality' in Bombay Boundaries refers to a spatial unit large enough to hold administrative, historical and perceptual identity within the fabric of Mumbai. It includes not only urban neighbourhoods but also distinctive land entities such as Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), and the outlying islands, each integral to the city's geography.

A locality represents a complete unit of recognition rather than its smaller fragments, eg: Four Bungalows in Andheri is not mapped independently but as part of the larger whole. Where a smaller area has a persistent sense of identity within a larger locality, it is treated as a sublocality, eg: Lalbaug is considered a sublocality of Parel, getting its own map and identity but also being mapped within its parent locality.

The flow of localities follows one after the other, not arranged alphabetically and beginning from the most natural point of origin – usually the southernmost (unless situated at sea for the Islands of Mumbai section) – and then proceeding continuously so that each locality gives way to the next, as if tracing a guided tour of the city.

With 107 entities mapped and photographed across Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban districts in Bombay Boundaries, and not a square inch left unmapped, never before in its history has Mumbai seen a boundary mapping exercise undertaken at such scale and rigour, without government, institutional or organisational grant and support.

25 days to go for .

28/11/2025

Swipe ➡️ for some unsettling questions, the theme, and the full title reveal of Bombay Boundaries.

The rewiring begins.
The pain this city felt but never knew how to articulate has finally been healed.

©Towering Goals.

19/11/2025

Look closer.

18/11/2025

It begins.

28/08/2025

The tallest residential vertical garden in the world:
Clearpoint Residencies in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka, with trees growing right up to the highest floor. 🌳

According to CTBUH, Clearpoint Residencies stands 185 metres (607 feet) tall across 47 storeys. Construction began in 2013 and completed in 2017, a project envisioned by Milroy Perera Associates, brought to life by and developed under the leadership of Clearpoint Residences Pvt. Ltd.
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This post from Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is one among several others themed on Sri Lanka’s skyscrapers that will be shared on Towering Goals.

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03/08/2025

The One, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The first of three supertall towers in The One complex photographed against the backdrop of the Arabian Sea and Colombo Port.

Set to house the Ritz Carlton Hotel and Residences and reach 323.4 metres / 1061 feet with 80 storeys, the tower currently finds itself on hold, stuck at 61 storeys, with construction activity coming to a halt since 2021.

This post from Colombo is one among several others themed on the Sri Lankan capital's skyscrapers that will be made on Towering Goals.

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10/07/2025

The first building I headed to shoot after landing in Colombo, Sri Lanka – ITC Ratnadipa and Sapphire Residences on Galle Face. Also the first skyscraper photos I took beyond Indian borders.

This project was literally my gateway to the skyline of the capital of Sri Lanka. At night, it shines like a jewel in the skyline of Colombo. I assume Ratnadipa to translate to 'Island of Jewels', or a tribute to 'Emerald Isle' that Sri Lanka is often called. In either case, the name is befitting.

is the first hotel by ITC outside Indian borders. Standing 140 metres / 460 feet and 33 floors tall, it is connected to (225 metres / 738 feet, 55 floors) by Ahasa One, a sky bridge 55 metres /180 feet in length and 100 metres / 330 feet above ground. The sky bridge is the first one in South Asia.

ITC Limited's wholly owned subsidiary Lanka (Private) Limited opened the 352-key ITC Ratnadipa to guests on 25 April 2024.
The project is designed by . Structural engineers are , and the contractors are Larsen and Toubro.

This post from Colombo is one among several others themed on the Sri Lankan capital's skyscrapers that will be made on Towering Goals.

Follow for more of my photography of skyscrapers across Colombo.
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08/07/2025

TRI-ZEN, one of my favourite residential projects in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Located in Union Place, just inland from Colombo’s coast, TRI-ZEN is a three-tower residential development by John Keells Properties, fully completed earlier this year.

Each of the towers range from 51-54 floors and stand approximately 190 metres / 623 feet tall, placing TRI-ZEN amongst the tallest residential projects in Sri Lanka.

Designed for Colombo’s next generation of urban homeowners, the development focuses on compact, smart-home apartments: a shift from the city’s older layout styles. Amenities are shared across the three towers, with a central podium connecting them.

Unlike the curved silhouettes of some towers along Galle Face, TRI-ZEN brings a cleaner, symmetric and vertical geometry to the inland skyline. Its placement just off the city’s primary commercial zone means that it is well connected, yet not part of the traditional highrise zone, making its presence in the skyline even more noticeable.

This post from Colombo is one among several others themed on the Sri Lankan capital's skyscrapers that will be made on Towering Goals.

Follow for more of my photography of skyscrapers across Colombo.
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DM for skyscraper photography requirements.

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