Gimme Five!

Where do you live and what do you do?
I’m an actor/ director and I live on Bandstand.

Where do you hang out in Bandra?
At home but when I was younger and used to “hang out” it was on Pali Hill and of course, on Bandstand.

What’s your favourite restaurant/bar in [...]

Just Bandra

DECEMBER 17, 2007
A man and a woman
are one
Bandra is less.

FEB 20, 2008
I know noble accents
and also what they mean.
But I know, too,
that Bandra is butchered
by what I know.

APRIL 18, 2008
Wind at the Bandstand promenade filled me
with brittle fate.
beyond it the water moved adding nothing
and everything.

JUNE 2, 2008
When the houses at [...]

Indulge At Butter

Butter cookies, butter milk, peanut butter… you can’t go wrong with butter. Butter is also the newest store in Bandra and equally tempting.
Owner Nitika Dheer says of the name, “Everyone loves butter, it’s just a fun name that people will remember.” The best part of the [...]

Mohini’s Modaks

Mohini Bobde, a resident of Carter Road shares her recipe for modaks with us. She says, “I make this every year for Ganesh. It’s reasonably simple and tasty.”
INGREDIENTS: ½  a grated coconut, 200gms water, 200gms Basmati rice flour, 2tsp poppy seeds, 2tsp sesame seeds, ½ cardamom, [...]

Mac-Lyns

East Indians are known for their great food. The smell of spicy khuddi curry, hot potato chops and pickle will make any Bandra local weak at the knees. And while they are equally known for not sharing their recipes you can sample some traditional East [...]

Xibit

Exhibitions can be a real bore if you go with your mom or someone who actually goes there to buy something. I suggest you go by yourself or with a good friend (like I did) and your guaranteed to buy something unique or atleast see something youve [...]

Zone In

The Andrean Zonals which has passed their five decade mark, has set a certain style and pizzazz that draws in the crowds every year. The Zonals as it’s popularly called is a competition between the four zones of St. Andrews Parish, the North West, North [...]

Oktober Fest Continues

The ten-day long beer festival at Mumbai Times Café, cleverly titled B.L.O.B (Basic Love of Beer), continues this week and has the famous DJ Tarun (popularly known as DJ Boombaba) playing techno and trance along with the the uber-talented VJ group ‘AndThen’ will [...]

Tango Time

Get ready to dance the night away with Tim Collins and his lovely dance partner Malou Meyenhofer. The dancing duo will be starting Lindy Hop and Argentine Tango Classes at Zenzi this September. These nights will include a free workshop beginning at 8pm so you can get [...]

Shady Business

A flowering tree on Hill road which is almost 18 years old and which was planted when Mumbai was being beautified under the Clean Mumbai, green Mumbai campaign, was brutally chopped off in June leaving it only ¼th the original size.  Sarina Lopez [...]