I’ve crafted a new series of substacks where I will speak with peers about their work — writing, photographing, philosophising, painting, etc. As I evolve in my own writing routines, I’ve felt enriched and educated by these conversations. This is a practice, I believe, I’m setting up mostly to get to know more from and about other writers, artists, photographers through their lives and stories.

You can read the earlier conversations in this series here!

For the fourth edition of Conversation, I caught up with Mumbai-based photographer Gopal M.S., better known as Mumbai Paused on Instagram and X. During the day he works the works at an ad agency; on evenings and over weekends he gets behind the lens, shooting the city, its streets and life. He has been documenting Mumbai since 2009 and Bangalore for around three years before that. He currently lives with his wife and son in Navi Mumbai.