Khotachiwadi - Girgaum's heritage village - is only a 15-minute walk from this writer's home. On a Sunday morning, we head towards it, and 15 minutes in, we're lost. Even with Google Maps.

But we only need two magic words to find our way to our destination through a maze of narrow lanes dotted with colourful Portuguese-style houses. "Ferreira House?" we ask a local. "Take the first left, walk straight, then take a right," he replies and we follow. We soon find ourselves standing in front of a long balcony, and we're instructed to walk the stairs to the first floor where No Borders Shop, a store for vintage clothing that has now launched an online journal, is situated - right by a room designated for fashion designer James Ferreira's workmen. We are welcomed by Shilpa, the store manager, who is escorting a foreign tourist couple out of the store.