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There are few sights as magnificent and as readily available to the rich and poor alike in space-starved Mumbai as standing on Marine Drive at sundown and looking into the Arabian Sea. As you turn around, rows of art deco buildings with ship deck-like balconies greet you — part of a collection of structures that were accorded the Unesco World Heritage status last year.
As you walk along the promenade in the southern end of the city, relishing the breezy reprieve after the onslaught of humidity through the day, it is hard to believe that this neighbourhood, home to some of the country’s priciest properties, stands on land reclaimed from the sea a century ago. It is harder still to picture it being reclaimed back by the ocean in about three decades, as a recent global study on the rise in sea levels predicted.