Of the many things that define the modern man, perhaps the most basic is the ability to walk on two feet. “It is the difference between us and apes,” Rishi Aggarwal, founder of The Walking Project, points out. A non-governmental venture advocating better walkways around the city, they will conduct their first neighbourhood walk with a difference around Dadar’s neighbourhood this weekend.

Walking, Aggarwal notes, is integral to human progress. “And yet, it is looked down upon. Even the word pedestrian has a negative connotation of being unsophisticated,” he says. The tour is an effort to change this perception and educate people on the need to tap into the ‘largest public space’ in a metropolis such as Mumbai.