Recently, the Bombay High Court greenlighted a three-member team comprising Gerard Shirley, Alan Mooleman and Anya Lehra to take over management of the prestigious Breach Candy Club. The club’s constitution stipulates management by European inhabitants of the city.

For a few years now, the club has been embroiled in controversy, and while its internecine politics and financial wrangling and challenges were one aspect, a lot has to do with doing away with what are seen as “colonial-era” laws restricting or disallowing ‘Indian control’ of the club. The “race row” or “colour bar” has always thrown its shadow over the space.