The newest exhibition by the Citizens’ Archive of India
Before the archive, there is a conversation.
Our upcoming exhibition, In the Telling, invites you to step into the shoes of an oral historian, and experience an interview as it unfolds. Bring your children, your parents, your grandparents, and come listen together.
Chemould Prescott Road, Fort, Mumbai
14–17 May | 11 AM – 6 PM | Entry free, open to all.
In the Telling: A Curatorial Walkthrough
A guided tour of In the Telling, the newest exhibition from the Citizens’ Archive of India, by Archive Director Malvika Bhatia. This walkthrough will take the audience through the show, while offering insights into the curatorial process.
📍Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
📅 Thursday, 14th May
In the Presence of Things: The Object as Witness
If an object could speak, what stories would it tell? Often even the smallest object can carry the heaviest history across generations. Join oral historian and author Aanchal Malhotra at this talk, which explores how ordinary things become portals into the past and intimate archives of experience and memory.
📍Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
📅 Friday, 15th May
The Bombay Balchão Walk
This heritage walk begins at In the Telling, our newest exhibition. Moving through the neighbourhoods of Sonapur, Cavel, and Dabul, she will share stories from Soboicar, her oral history project with CAI, alongside reflections on Bombay Balchao, her novel set within these neighbourhoods.
📍Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
📅 Saturday, 16th May
Living With Ghosts: Stories from a multigenerational household
True-blue Mumbaikar, Meghana AT is the fourth generation of her family to live in the same home. Each room was lovingly put together decades before she was born. She may never have met the people who built this home over seventy years, but their ghosts, their stories, and their love endure.
📍Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
📅 Saturday, 16th May
Gratuitous, Curious and Contagious: From epidemics to eccentric cures, a dose of Bombay’s storied past.
This walk uncovers how health and disease shaped everyday life in old Bombay. Discover dispensaries frozen in time, forgotten hospitals, and strange miracle cures. From sweeping epidemics to the pioneers who shaped medicine, revisit stories of a city full of resilience, wit, and surprises.
📍Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
📅 Sunday, 17th May
Nation of Stories
In this talk, Director Malvika Bhatia will share stories from the Citizens’ Archive of people who have witnessed the formative nation-building years of India. The stories go well beyond the political climate of the time. See how ordinary Indians’ stories come together to form the history of a nation.
📍Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
📅 Sunday, 17th May
