Versova Beach

This guide to Versova Beach in Mumbai begins in 2015, when a Mumbai lawyer named Afroz Shah moved into a sea-facing flat expecting sunrises and instead found rubbish piled shoulder-high on the sand. It follows Shah and his eighty-three-year-old neighbor Harbansh Mathur as they start picking up trash alone on a beach most people had written off, and the way that one Sunday habit slowly pulled in slum residents, schoolchildren and Bollywood actors over more than a hundred consecutive weekends. Walk the shoreline as you listen and notice how far the sand now stretches.