“Main line mar raha hoon” would be architect Savio Lobo’s practical reply when puzzled passers-by would ask him, “Kya kar rahe ho?” This, after noticing him positioned outside a Portuguese-styled bungalow or a chapel tucked in a bylane in Bandra, while sketching one of the 100 images meant for his book.

Constructed first in 1858 as a chapel on the hill, St Anne’s Church as it is known today, was rebuilt in 1939. Sketch COURTESY/SAVIO LOBO, ARCHITECT

This was one of the many anecdotes that Lobo regaled audiences with on a rainy Sunday evening at the release of his stylish coffee table book of line drawings, Bandra By Hand: Drawing Attention.