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Bandra in TimeOut 50 coolest neighbourhoods in 2018

Bandra is the queen of Mumbai’s suburbs, one of TimeOut 50 coolest neighbourhoods in the World. This is where the stereotypical Indian contrasts meet at its extremes: the opulent and the decaying, the migrant and the nouveau riche, the hip and the traditional; they stand out more starkly than

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Bandra girl wants maid to do 3 months free internship

She wanted to be on her own. She moved out to where else but Bandra. Bandra gives a woman complete freedom. Freedom to do what she wants, Freedom to get a guy in the house anytime and throw him out. But paying the exorbitant rents of bandra flats can bring

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Review of the Book "The House at 43, Hill Road" by Brenda Rodrigues

The Housing society is a micro democracy and corruption starts here. This Book is a tale of the fight between the writers family and the owners of the Select Corner. Braz Rodrigues who built one of the first bungalows on Hill Road in the mid 1800’s. The

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Why Bandra Catholics are indifferent to their Bollywood neighbours?

I am not pleased with murals and chowks dedicated to bolllywood personalities. I love Bollywood, but I think all these stars are immortalised in their performances. They don’t need to have chowks named after them. Of-course the government has to do something for publicity. Naming a chowk after

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Notes from the Launch of The house at 43, Hill Road.

The story of the house Joe’s grand father Braz Rodrigues built the palatial house at 43, Hill Road. Braz his children even his grandchildren were fluent in Portuguese and were very westernised. Braz married twice and inherited property of his first wife and got Rs 300 ( a tidy

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Bandra Boy Dinesh D’souza an alumni of St. Stanislaus making news over Florida shooting tweet.

Dinesh D’souza was in news recently for mocking the florida school surviors. Though he has apologised on the tweet below. It is interesting to see a journey of a person from Bandra to being a former advisor to Reagan. So let us look at Dinesh D’souza past to

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Meet Nerjis Shakir the 6 year old street photographer from Bandra.

The best thing for a parent to do is to teach your children a skill. But sometimes to our wonder our children don’t want to learn the skill we can give impart to them. This isn’t the case with Nerjis Asif Shakir, she is the grand

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A tribute to Fr. Joe Pareira founder of Kripa Foundation, Mt Carmel Church.

By Andrea Rangnekar Picture from Twitter Profile A walk into the dark streets of Bandra in the 1980s….. Amongst the bright lights and Glitterati of the Queen of Suburbs also lurked the dark shadowy bylanes of Bandra… where the onset of darkness brought out the Hyde in man. Bylanes of

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Ranvir Singh explains why Bandra is so special for him

[Throwback VIDEO] Ranveer Singh – Recalling The Time Spent In Bandra,Down Memory Lane ❤️ pic.twitter.com/5L9nVBaPVM — Ranveerians Worldwide (@RanveeriansFC) May 1, 2017 Ranveer Singh Bhavnani (born 6 July 1985) is an Indian film actor who appears in Hindi films. After completing a bachelor’s degree from

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BMC denies Road digging charge and claims Genesia Time Travelled to WW II to imitate the picture.

Genesia Alves has made history by cloning the WW II picture to feature the powerlessness of an Bandraite. Hey #Bandra I made a tribute to the BMC digging. #TeaDuringTheBlitz pic.twitter.com/0oCNVfDNKi — BookOfGenesia (@genesiaalves) April 25, 2017 The rationale for the pits in Bandra is an enigma, so

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Interview with Aftab Siddique

Aftab Siddique am born and brought up in Khar. She did her schooling from Duruelo Convent High School and R.D.National College. Aftab is a teacher by profession from last 27 years. She says about her job as a teacher As a teacher, we impart a specific syllabus but

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Meet Joe Vessoakar the trumpet maestro from Bazaar Road

Joe (for Joseph) is an iconic figure at Bazaar Road. Every morning he puts his chair outside his house and practises his music. Ask any fruitwala on Bazaar road, for the exact directions to his house in case you have trouble. I reached and Joe after some deliberation where to

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Interview with Alishka M Anand from @Bylanes_ofbandra

There are quite a few Bandra handles on social media. One of the most delightful handles on Instagram focusing on the bungalows of Bandra is @bylanes_ofbandra Alishka Anand runs the account and posts her interpretation on the names of these homes along with the pictures, which makes her Instagram

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George Menezes, a multi-faceted man

The multi-faceted George Menezes was a renowned author, columnist, diplomat and an eminent Catholic leader. The Mass was concelebrated by Bishop Percival Fernandes and six other priests. His son Christophe paid glowing tributes to his father that brought tears to the congregation. His friend Rev Cardinal Oswald Gracias, who is

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Interview with Saad Basha from Bombay Arts

As you enter Bandra from south Mumbai on SV Road, you find a store which has stood there for almost 60 years now. The imposing two-storied Bombay Arts is a multilevel furniture store. I recently had the opportunity to meet Saad Basha the young and the dynamic 26-year-old director of

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Meet Samantha from Bandra doing the Happy Dance.

I follow Samantha on Instagram, she recently tagged me on this video and I thought it was a great gesture from Samantha of thinking of doing something different with all the graffiti art. She has used dance and the hit song by Pharell Williams in this fun one minutes video.

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Interview with Bandra boy Adnan on his film "Feminist Yes, Feminazi No!"

We did a short 5 question interview with Adnan on his film. So read below to know, what inspires a 20 year law school student to make a film on a very mature subject like feminism. 1) How long have you been living in Bandra chapel road? I was born

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BANDRA MERI JAAN - A Poem by Anonymous

woh carter rd. ki hawa woh leelawati ki dawa woh linking rd.ki shopping woh national college mein copying, …woh bandra ki sadken yahaan najane kitne dil dhadke, woh bandra ka pali hill jahaan basta hai bollywood ka dil, yahan MBBS Hai Humare Munna Bhai Humaari Umaar Unko Laag

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My Fishing Lessons 101 at Carters by Eddie.

Yesterday night I was sitting on the bench at Carters Road promenade, and I saw this old man, I thought he must be in his 50, and he has this big shiny fishing rod, and I was wondering what the old man must be doing in such pitch darkness? I

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Why Nobody believes this 80 year old Bandra Resident?

I had gone to a book reading for a friend and author Murzban Shroff’s 2nd book which is based in Bandra and is called “Waiting for Jonathon Koshy”. The book reading was arranged by Otters Club Library and we had many esteemed Guests there including a

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My meeting with Helmetgirl Bandra

I met Helmet-girl Bandra and was very impressed by her vigor and sincerity towards the betterment of Bandra. She has chosen a unique way to get her message across to the people. She wants to be the voice of the people, and she has plans for the same, but let

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S S Dias & Sons Men’s Wear - A cut above the rest.

As you walk the length and breadth of Hill Road, most of the shops out there look all similar with glass and aluminium facades, these shops are monotonous looking and incredibly annoying, and you have no way of making out what’s the difference. It is the herd mentality

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Meet Editor & Publisher Mr. Clarence Gomes of Bandra Times

I love the Bazaar Road market lane, and have walked the lane a thousand times, on this path you can’t help but notice a beautiful 148-year-old house marked “Bandra Times”. What really can put a smile on your face is the Bandra times message blackboard, where they have a

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360º View of Sachin Tendulkar's New House in Bandra

Have a look at master blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s dream house located in Bandra .The Master Blaster is all set to move into his dream house located on Bandra’s West Perry Cross Road. The mansion has been designed keening the batting maestro’s love for cars.

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A Excerpt from the novel Bloodline Bandra.

Godfrey Joseph Pereira is the author of ‘Bloodline Bandra’. He has been a journalist and a War Correspondent. Presently he is writing his next Novel: ‘Letters To Esther.’ He lives in The New York Area. Q} Tell me, how did ‘Bloodline Bandra’ start? G.J.P: The literature student in