Last month, the Bandra Bandstand Residents Trust brought out the first issue of The Promenade, a quarterly newsletter to keep citizens informed about the activities of the Trust which presently concern the welfare, maintenance and security of the Bandstand promenade. Joy Bimal Roy, who was appointed a trustee two months ago and given the responsibility of bringing out the newsletter, felt it was essential to outline its history in his very first editorial. “I wanted to bring out the feeling that people have of living on the Bandstand and in Bandra,” he tells mid-day, keen to set it apart from an earlier one-page newsletter published by the Trust that concerned itself mainly with local statistics.

Both The Voice of Malabar Hills and Public Eye were forced to halt production during the pandemic