Best of India.

India's creative neighborhoods grew out of villages, bungalows, and back lanes the city forgot to demolish. In Delhi, Shahpur Jat's narrow gullies hold Blue Tokai pour-overs next to chai stalls that have poured since before the designers arrived. In Mumbai, Bandra West paints Chapel Road with murals while Carter Road watches the Arabian Sea. Both neighborhoods kept their old residents and added new ones. Neither pushed out the original cast. That's the Indian version of the Brooklyn instinct.