Juhu Beach

This guide to Juhu Beach in Mumbai opens on 15 October 1932, when a young J.R.D. Tata climbed into a single-engine Puss Moth in Karachi with twenty-five kilograms of airmail, no radio, and no certainty anything awaited him at the other end. You'll hear about the seven-hour flight and the touchdown on the bare tidal mudflats of Juhu, where there was no runway or terminal, only a thatched hut nearby. It traces how that improvised landing strip became one of Mumbai's best-loved gathering places, loud today with vendors, camel rides and evening crowds.