What do you call people from Bandra? "Pretentious," our colleague in the newspaper quips. And even though the correct answer is Bandraites, this joke is not a new one. It's common for Mumbaikars to jest about people from the swish suburb, and sometimes, we're part of the bandwagon, too. At other times, we are that starry-eyed migrant who is amazed by its eclectic ethos.

It's a community in its own right — if Tiger Shroff and Ananya Panday frequent a diner each Sunday afternoon, then there's also a group of women from different backgrounds coming together for Buddhist prayer meetings around the same time each week. Poetry readings, picnics, gym buddies having organic coffee at a new cafe, best friends shopping — there's truly something for everyone. If a festival would at all draw people out of their homes in this scorching heat, it would have to be in Bandra.