Mumbaikars, this birthright travel gives we a possibility to relive Bandra’s history

A old-fashioned lodge on Chapel Road
A old-fashioned lodge on Chapel Road

As we transport by Bandra’s Ranwar Village, one of a strange pakhadis or hamlets that make adult a suburb, it’s easy to transport behind to a epoch when a residents would favour rice and coconut in circuitously fields or when women, wearing normal lugras, would mount on wooden balconies of their cottages and indulge in a report session. Home to a East Indian community, a settlement, believed to date behind to a early 1700s, retains old-fashioned bungalows with red-tiled roofs, backing both sides of a slight Veronica Street. It’s a distant cry from a potion and steel structures that dot Hill Road, a few metres away; in fact, if we stop to observe, we competence only mark a proprietor in a normal East Indian vermillion-hued drape.

Mount Mary's Basilica
Mount Mary’s Basilica

This Saturday, pointer adult for Bandra’s Past And Present, a birthright transport that allows we to try a neighbourhood, and uncover a story from a lost time in a fast-changing suburb. Open to 25 guests, a transport is hosted by Mumbai Riders, a village that conducts city trails and cycle rides, along with The Inheritage Project, founded by Alisha Sadikot. A birthright consultant and former curator (education and outreach) during Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, she will control a two-hour walk.

Alisha Sadikot heading a walk
Alisha Sadikot heading a walk

It starts during Land’s End, a southwestern tip of Bandra and ends during Hill Road. Rishi Shah, owner of Mumbai Riders, says, “For this transport [third edition], a stopovers embody Bandra Fort, Mount Mary, St Stephen’s Church and Chapel Road. The thought is to strew light on a neighbourhood’s story and attempts done by proprietor communities to safety legacies in a time of prevalent development.”

ON: Jul 15, 8 am to 10 am 
MEETING POINT: Outside Taj Land’s End, Bandra West 
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COST: Rs 800

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