Kai (Kari) Altmann

Mumbai Skyworld (Akash Lok) Part I, Mumbai 2050

SCENE ONE: BANDRA KHAR From London to Paris to Athens and Istanbul, the green parakeets of India had now spread and dominated the entire Indo European stretch. In so many cities, you heard their voices in the sky, with their numbers doubling every year, though nowhere as loud as in Mumbai, which became their global hub. The biggest swarm here started from a single woman’s 6th floor 2BhK flat in Khar where she began feeding the parakeets in 1997. All flocks around the world now took at least one migration here in their lifespan, and many wound up staying.