Hanging Gardens

This guide to the Hanging Gardens in Mumbai starts with a hint that something lies buried beneath the terraces, then explains why the city sealed its main hilltop reservoir under a garden in 1881. It traces the Towers of Silence nearby, where the Parsi community carried out open-air funeral rites, and the worry that shaped what the city built next to protect its water. The gardens were later named for a Parsi leader known as the Lion of Bombay. Look down at the clipped animal hedges and consider what still sits beneath them.