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Mumbai Paused
This time for ‘Vettaths Talks’, we had Gopal, popularly known through his Instagram page as ‘Mumbai paused’ . In this session, as his name suggests, Gopal spoke about pausing and discovering stories from Mumbai, which is invisible to us as we rush by, stories of art found on the streets created by working-class people, villages of Mumbai, Dalit imagery and more. He also talked about how all of us have become photographers and memory-keepers and how the internet has changed how we create memories and remember the times we live in.
Mumbai Paused is a product of the world wide web. He documents the streets of Mumbai online, and his real-life avatar is that of an advertising copywriter. He has been living a double life on the internet and narrates stories in a world moving at Internet speed. He has been capturing Mumbai since 2008 in tales and scenes that weave larger narratives about a place constantly evolving.







