Madh Island

This guide to Madh Island in Mumbai follows Natasha Hemrajani, a photographer who arrived planning only to crash on a friend's couch and ended up building her career from this cluster of fishing villages between the Arabian Sea and Malad Creek. It traces the wave of musicians, actors and artists who followed her lead, calling themselves Bombohemians, and the fishing and film-set life that still fills the shoreline. It also visits the ruined Madh Fort, a Portuguese bastion stormed by the Maratha army in 1739. Look for the fishing boats pulled up at dawn along the beach.