Fiona Fernandez’s meticulously charted trails in this bestselling title nudges readers to appreciate the diverse heritage of her home city. Its geography and skyline have undergone a dramatic change since the first edition was released in 2007. This revised and updated edition lets you experience old Bombay and New Mumbai, explore its hidden stories, take in its spectacular architectural ensembles, and engage with its cosmopolitan character. Critically, it also spotlights the reshaping of the island city and suburban Bandra. The overarching intent is to create awareness about these precious, vulnerable treasures, and amplify the importance of safeguarding them, one step at a time.
TEN HERITAGE WALKS OF MUMBAI
TEN HERITAGE WALKS OF MUMBAI
By: Fiona Fernandez795.00
- ISBN: 978-81-6710-014-6
- Pages: 248 pages
- Published: 16 November, 2026
- Format: Paperback
- Imprint: Rupa
- Language: English
Fiona Fernandez is a senior journalist and researcher living in Mumbai. For over twenty years, she has written extensively about heritage, offering a 360-degree deep-dive into Mumbai’s multi-layered urban histories, the conservation of its many heritage sites and its citizen champions. Through her long-running column, ‘Bombaynama’, in the Mid-day newspaper, she offers a discerning, probing voice, reminding readers to take pride in its local and cultural history, as well as its built and natural heritage.
The revised edition of Ten Heritages Walks of Mumbai is the result of decades of wandering through the city’s known and forgotten precincts. The primary goal of this book when first published in 2007, and reprinted now, remains the same—an extension of her mission to make heritage relevant, accessible, and a talking point across age groups in today’s times, when Indian cityscapes are being rapidly re-drawn and are increasingly becoming gentrified replicas of each other.
Fiona is also the author of H for Heritage: Mumbai, followed by H for Heritage: Kolkata, and Bombay Meri Jaan. She was co-researcher for The Mumbai Factfile and has contributed to anthologies including Nissim Ezekiel: Poet and Father, The Book of Dog and Urban Voice 3. Her words have appeared in TimeOut Mumbai, Punch magazine, Mumbai Mirror and The Outlook Traveller, among other publications. She was on the editorial panel for the Networks of the Past Gallery at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum), Mumbai.
She continues to document neighbourhoods across the city, and conducts immersive, experiential walks for select, small groups, to help showcase and spread the word about Mumbai’s layered histories. Her stints with Cadbury-Bournvita Quiz Contest, Paprika Media and The Times of India have offered valuable insight for her research and writing on Mumbai.
Fiona remains hopeful that someday heritage will get its rightful place as a subject in schools and colleges in her home city and state, and, eventually, the rest of India.
