Four Stories of Bandra, old and new

We start in 1573, the year the Portuguese Jesuits came to Vandre  (so called in those days), and effectively put it on the map.

The next date is 1739, when the Maratha armies conquered Bacaim, Salcete - and Bandora — and expelled the Portuguese from these parts forever.

The year 1887 is our next milestone, Queen Victoria's jubilee year,when Bandra's native Catholics acquired a new name: "East Indian'.

And so to the recent past, the 1963, where young Indians, newly independent, sought to make sense of their world.

Four narratives, each seen through the eyes of a young man, the "Bandra Boy" of the title. What he sees, desires and becomes, is the grist of this narrative.