At a reception accorded to him in 1983 by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, J. R. D. Tata recalled,
‘The Bombay of my youth with its magnificent harbour, its shady wooded hills, its flowering trees, its then disciplined population – there were no morchas then to impede one’s travels through the city – its virtual absence of beggars, its freedom from law and order problems, and how happy a place it was in which to live and to work, a
city of which we could be proud.’