India, Dec. 1 -- I am an inveterate lover of maps. The technical term is cartophiliac. Over the last one and a half years since I moved to Mumbai from Delhi, my cartophilia has had a free reign. In a new city, you spend a chunk of time staring at its map, finding your way. My two decades in inland Delhi presented few possibilities - its map was a blob, a splat, an amoeba. It looked as if you were studying tissue cells under a microscope, the Jamuna tapeworming on one side. Mumbai, on the other hand, a mini peninsula scalped by the sea, presents a hundred different possibilities. Look at it from above. What does it look like?

I posed this question to some Mumbai friends, pinging their whatsapp very early in the morning, with a screenshot ...