Mustansir Dalvi is an architect and professor of architecture, poet and translator, author and editor, columnist and curator, academician and semiotician, urban commentator and historian.
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Narayan Gangaram Surve: In conversation with Jerry Pinto at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
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Narayan Gangaram Surve: In conversation with Jerry Pinto at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

I will be in conversation with author and poet Jerry Pinto about the poetry of Narayan Gangaram Surve, focused on Pinto’s book of Surve’s poetry in translation:  In That Mill […]

Citizen Charles Book Release at SEA CITY
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Citizen Charles Book Release at SEA CITY

Jan 17, 2025. Mustansir Dalvi Charles Correa: Citizen Charles (Niyogi Books, 2024)     SEA CITY is the School of Environment and Architecture’s outreach programme. SEA City organizes events, lectures, […]

Art Deco Architecture – a lecture
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Art Deco Architecture – a lecture

Mustansir Dalvi will present a public lecture as part of 2025 programming of Art Deco Mumbai for the centenary celebrations of the 1925 Paris Exposition next year. As a lead […]

Charles Correa: Citizen Charles
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Charles Correa: Citizen Charles

This is the first biography to be written on Charles Correa (1930 – 2015), architect, urban planner, film-maker, and true-blue ‘Bombaywallah’. He was a man of many talents, and one of the most globally honoured architects of his time.

Mustansir Dalvi Yanchyashi Samwad with Manya Joshi
BOOKS: POETRY
Mustansir Dalvi Yanchyashi Samwad with Manya Joshi
What makes Mumbai’s Regal cinema truly special
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What makes Mumbai’s Regal cinema truly special

"One of the last remaining buildings of its kind, the Regal is a reminder of an age when people across class chose to spend three hours in a darkened hall. The Regal can, even today, cater to more than a thousand cinephiles, but are there that many people thronging the theatre on any single day any more, with OTT offering you the world?"

First published in the National Herald.

Narayan Gangaram Surve: In conversation with Jerry Pinto at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
Citizen Charles Book Release at SEA CITY
Art Deco Architecture – a lecture
Charles Correa: Citizen Charles
Mustansir Dalvi Yanchyashi Samwad with Manya Joshi
What makes Mumbai’s Regal cinema truly special

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