Phoenix Marketcity

This guide to Phoenix Marketcity in Mumbai traces the 1982 Great Bombay Textile Strike, when hundreds of thousands of mill workers led by Datta Samant walked off the job and the city's industrial heart never fully restarted. You'll hear how Phoenix Mills, a cotton manufacturer since 1905, began turning its idle Lower Parel mill land into a retail and hospitality venture, and how that experiment grew into the four-floor, seven-hundred-store mall in Kurla that opened in November 2011. It's a guide about what a working-class rail junction became once the looms went silent.