Anandini Thakoor Age, Death, Husband, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Anandini Thakoor

• In 1993, amid communal unrest in Mumbai, she helped establish Mohalla Committees which enabled dialogue between citizens and police.

• From around the mid-1970s, she served as chairperson of St Anthony’s Institute, Bandra, which sharpened her insights into community needs.

• In a decade-long fight to shut down a pigeon-feeding enclosure near Khar Market 1st & 7th Road junction.

• She raised issues of sanitation and health especially for children and older residents. In 2025, the site stands as a beautified traffic island, free of birds and the hazards that plagued residents for years.

• She opposed a brightly painted divider on Linking Road in a residential area, claiming it was distracting and improperly implemented and residents got it repainted after her intervention.
  

  Anandini Thakoor working on green cause

• In 2024, she was instrumental in stopping the BMC’s Khar Subway Flyover project after demonstrating how it would cut through quiet residential zones. She had also opposed underground parking plans under Patwardhan Park, protecting it as a vital green lung for locals.

• MLA Ashish Shelar called her “a fearless voice for Mumbaikars whose dedication to civic causes has left an indelible mark.”