6 places to spend an afternoon.
Walk the Chapel Road murals, catch a play at Prithvi Theatre in neighboring Juhu, and browse Nicobar for Indian design. The Bandstand promenade at sunset is free and better than most things that charge admission. Haiku is the gallery worth checking for current shows.
3 things to do, 3 shops, all in Bandra West.
Bandra West's art scene runs from Chapel Road's rotating Bollywood Art Project murals to Haiku's monthly shows of emerging Indian contemporary work. For the long view, The Bombay Art Society has been at this since 1888, which makes most galleries in the city look like newcomers.
Gallery and cafe hybrid in Bandra showing emerging Indian contemporary artists, with exhibitions rotating monthly. The space encourages lingering over coffee and actually looking at the work.
A lane of Goan-Portuguese houses covered in murals by local and international artists, with the art changing regularly. The whole stretch is walkable in 20 minutes and rewards a slow pace.
Founded in 1888, this is the only British colonial-era fine art society still running, now housed in Sanjay Puri's angular, Cubist-inspired complex in Bandra Reclamation. Three galleries, an amphitheater, and a library share the 10,000 square feet. The annual All India exhibition, now in its 134th edition, remains the draw.
Bandra West shopping rewards a slow walk: Trilogy edits its shelves like a private library, Nicobar's flagship makes the case for clean Indian design over imported logos, and Title Waves runs eight thousand square feet of fiction, poetry, and regional Indian titles with a corner of superhero figures. Three shops, three very different reasons to leave with a bag.
Trilogy is a sharply edited independent bookshop and library in Mumbai, stocking handpicked titles across literature, art and design. The quiet reading rooms and unhurried pace make it a rare space for losing yourself in a book.
Behind a 40-foot entrance in the St. Paul Media Complex, 8,000 square feet holds books alongside a serious stock of CDs and DVDs, with a touchscreen kiosk to find whatever's on the floor. Since 2005 it's been Bollywood's go-to backdrop for book launches, and Mumbai's first boutique bookstore.
Indian lifestyle brand with a Bandra flagship carrying clean-lined clothing, home textiles, and travel accessories designed in-house. The aesthetic is minimal and the quality is reliable enough to keep coming back.
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