Bandra Boy: Four Stories From Bandra’S Rich History

<p>Four Stories of Bandra old and new<br/>We start in 1573 the year the Portuguese Jesuits came to Vandre <br/>(so called in those days) and effectively put it on the map.<br/>The next date is 1739 when the Maratha armies conquered<br/>Bacaim Salcete - and Bandora -- and expelled the Portuguese from<br/>these parts forever.<br/>The year 1887 is our next milestone Queen Victoria's jubilee year<br/>when Bandra's native Catholics acquired a new name: East Indian'.<br/>And so to the recent past the 1963 where young Indians newly<br/>independent sought to make sense of their world.<br/>Four narratives each seen through the eyes of a young man the<br/>Bandra Boy of the title. What he sees desires and becomes is the<br/>grist of this narrative.</p>