Letters: Saving Mumbai's heritage

The tragic death of 23 people in the stampede on the railway foot bridge at Elphinstone Road station should be a wake-up call

With reference to the editorial, “Decaying Mumbai” (October 4), at one time, the city, then called Bombay, was the pride of India. Despite the high population density, millions of daily commuters, incessant rains for four months, smugglers and the underworld et al, the city not only managed to survive and sustain itself but also prospered.
 
From house maids, plumbers and carpenters to efficient secretaries and senior executives, local trains and BEST buses, smart traders, legendary dabbawallas, scrupulously honest angarias, savvy Parsi and Marwari industrialists, a gutsy Bollywood — all of them made Mumbai the financial capital of the country