ANDHERI, A Village Dies by Ivan Arthur

This is a delicious, but unfortunately forgotten novel about the Roman Catholic residents of the villages of Amboli and the adjoining Kevni pada in Andheri West. Arthur, who lived here, before moving to Goa, gives us an insider's view of the different community dynamics. While it's a fictional retelling of the many stories and people, who came to give this place its character, at its core, the book is a funeral song of the two vibrant Catholic villages, now a shadow of their former glory.