and then we see flooding in the city like we saw this year during extreme rain eventscultural revivaltasneem mehta director bdl museum mumbai has amazing cultural assets and what we need is to bring them out to citizens but what has happened is a lot of our museums are run by agencies who do not know how and what it takes to bring in audiences or citizens festivals like kala ghoda have a lot of issues with the municipal corporation and there are many hurdles they need to cross before they can do something with it what makes a city liveable is the culture the economist has downgraded mumbais ranking and one of the reasons for this was cultural infrastructure political leaders can empower and enable these by involving experts and there are a lot of heritage sites and buildings we have that are slowly being knocked down citizens are battling to save theserahul shewale to protect heritage the municipal corporation has already made a heritage walkway in a ward and appointed a dmc deputy municipal commissioner and a separate heritage wing for protection there are six forts in mumbai and we are working with state central and archaeology departments to revive them five years ago we had appointed a consultant who submitted his report about mumbais heritage and the corporation is making efforts to implement the recommendationstoi but what about events and activities that must be conductedrahul shewale the consultant has also recommended the kind of events that can be held in the city and the suburbs and how they should be managed the corporation is planning to implement this in the next budgettasneem mehta citizens have to be involved in this and experts need to be brought on board for example mumbai heritage committee has very few experts they are mostly builders on the committee so what happens is the experts get voted out the national gallery for modern art in mumbai is run by an administrator and not by an expert we need to look at all these issues and bring the citizens together so that it isnt an us versus them but all working to make this an amazing citymeher rafaat activist i think tasneem you are talking about reviving the spirit of the city the city has a body you have to save by looking after the environment but what is happening to its mind and spirit everything that we had to become a cultural centre which includes diverse cultures promoting different communities and arts has a lid put on itamin patel i agree that open spaces should be given for cultural activities in fact what i mean by cultural revival is not just one festival but cultures like the kumbharwada as well the economy is linked with the culture food handicraft and that has vanished from mumbai because of urbanization because these people are today working in malls so i am definitely taking up the issue that the local corporation should allot money for