One Future Post #22: A love letter to Mumbai 💌
In the February 2026 edition of the One Future Post, we share a special event for the city we call our political home.
Hello from Vandita 🌻
One Future Collective’s roots lie firmly in Mumbai. Its people, roads, and kindness have shaped and sheltered us on our political journey. Mumbai has taught us how movements are built in conversation, in contradiction, and in care. It reminds us of the power of collectives who have resisted, rebuilt, and reimagined the city long before us, and alongside us.
It is time to say thank you and to invite you to see the city the way we do.
Warmly,
Vandita Morarka
For our political home, Mumbai 🌠
We’re really excited to share that on 28 February 2026, One Future Collective will be hosting a citywide, team-based treasure hunt across Mumbai. This experience will trace histories of struggle, care and collective action shaped by feminist, anti-caste, labour, queer, disability and community-led movements across the city.
Join Us for Khoj: A Mumbai City Treasure Hunt
If Mumbai has shaped your politics, your questions, or your sense of possibility, this day is for you.
Event Details
🤍 City: Mumbai
🤍 Date: 28 February 2026
🤍 Treasure Hunt: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
🤍 After Party: 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
🤍 After Party Venue: antiSOCIAL, Lower Parel
🤍 Food, music & live performances at the after party
🤍 Exciting prizes + exclusive merch
Registration
🎟️ Fee: ₹1500
🤍 Sign up with friends or meet new people by getting matched with a team
Mumbai is where One Future Collective was built, and it continues to be the political home that grounds our work. It is a city where many anti-caste, queer, disability and workers’ movements have both emerged and sustained through solidarity, imagination and love. Mumbai’s long history of resistance, lived in its streets, neighbourhoods and everyday acts of organising, is central to how we understand justice, community and collective futures.
Open to people across Mumbai, the day invites you to look at the city in a newer light, to tune into its sounds, notice its hidden corners, and let its stories surprise you. Designed as a fun, playful adventure, the experience uses movement and curiosity as ways to engage with social justice. Participants will move through different neighbourhoods and sites using a specially designed treasure hunt created by the One Future Collective team. Each stop will invite engagement with questions of power and resistance, encouraging participants to encounter the city and its histories in new and meaningful ways.
The day will culminate in a block party where participants come together to share food, music and more! Together, we will co-create a public mural that holds many voices, memories and visions for the future.
We invite you to move through the city with us, and to claim it together, once more.
Why We Are Doing This 🧩
Making of the Treasure Hunt
Play sits at the centre of this event. The treasure hunt invites you to engage with deeper questions around caste, gender, labour, migration, displacement, language and access through curiosity and embodied experience. Each clue and location is developed in collaboration with our knowledge partners, including local NGOs, historians, artists and community groups. Together, we centre narratives that are often erased or sanitised in mainstream accounts of the city.
A One-of-a-Kind Feminist Block Party
Participants will move through the morning in teams, encountering difference in real time and building relationships through collaboration. We end the day by inviting you to celebrate with us, centring joy & community. The block party creates space for food, music and connection, reminding us that joy and our larger communities are essential to sustaining movements.
Creating a Collective Mural
You’re invited to unleash your inner artist as we come together to co-create a public mural that reflects plurality rather than a single, fixed message. Many voices, experiences and visions will sit side by side. This is a shared practice of co-creation, with participants and partners shaping the stories, routes and meanings of the event, and building a sense of collective ownership that extends beyond a single day.
Let’s spread the word! 📬
Khoj is for everyone who wants to know Mumbai as a hub of social change action, or just wants to explore it with old and new friends. We invite you to use the media toolkit below to share it with friends, groups, and teams to bring them to this celebration of the city.
The toolkit includes key messages, a short guide on how to use the resources, and ready made creatives to share on social media. You can use it to talk about the event across socials by tagging us at @onefuturecollective on Instagram and @One Future Collective on LinkedIn! Our work is possible because of you, and we are always grateful.
Get Involved 🩷
🌍 Be part of this movement. We can’t wait to welcome you on the 28th!
If you would like to explore ways to collaborate with us, please write to us at info@onefuturecollective.org to initiate a conversation.
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Really inspired by how this frames learning about social movements through embodied experience rather than just theory. Using play as a way to engage with heavy topics like caste, labor, and displacement feels like a smart move. Back when I was involved in communtiy organizing, the events that stuck with people longest were the ones where they actualy moved through spaces together, not just sat in rooms talking. Hope this model spreads to other cities.