Like 74-year-old Parviz Dalal, who lives on the lower floor of Marine Mansion at Bandra Bandstand. This derelict, almost gothic house facing the ocean is more than 100 years old. And it sure looks that - the weeded pathway leading up to the house, the broken windows. But inside, the gusty sea wind blows freely and the square footage is generous. Dalals rent for a 2,000 square-foot space on the seafront is an unbelievable Rs 100 per month. "Ive been here since I was a boy," he relates. "I married here, my child was born here. I would never leave." But those days, of petrol at 15 annas to a gallon, of horse-carriages, of few people and fewer cars, are gone. And those inhabitants are gone too. Rockdale, another large mansion on the Bandstand, stands deserted today. Only the haunted skeleton remains of what must have been a majestic structure in its own time; windowless hollows gape out at the sea. The watchman, a solitary figure on the property, says its unsafe to go in and see the place. And mentions something about the place being acquired by a big builder to raise a hotel here.