Byculla is one of the few Mumbai pockets where a Dawoodi Bohra wedding, an East Indian Catholic blessing and a Maharashtrian Hindu pheras can happen on the same Sunday inside a five-minute radius. The communities here have been neighbours for three or four generations, and the families know each other. The kid’s piano teacher was your mother’s classmate. The Bohra family upstairs has been at every Catholic wedding on the street. The Maharashtrian elders down the road still attend the Misaq ceremonies they were invited to in the 70s.

The anchor’s job in Byculla is to know which community’s wedding she is hosting and which other communities are sitting in the front row. A Bohra Nikah will often have Maharashtrian neighbours who do not know the Misaq protocol. A Catholic reception will have Bohra family friends who have never seen a traditional roce. Divya works each tradition on its own terms and translates the unfamiliar half for the visiting side in clean Hindi, English or Marathi so nobody feels like an outsider at their own friends’ wedding.

The venues do their share of work too. Byculla’s community halls run on community time. The Byculla Club has its own house rules. The heritage East Indian community grounds have specific layouts that change how the run-sheet has to flow. Divya adjusts to the venue rather than imposing a banquet template on a hall that has never been one.