The Agaskar home on Prarthna Samaj Road

You may be forgiven for thinking Idlai Padlai is some variation of a South Indian snack. It's the genesis of Vile Parle actually. A pair of hamlets, Padle near Santa Cruz and Irle near Andheri, resulted in the station between named Vidlai (Idlai to those dropping the "V") Padlai. From Vidlai Padlai to Vile Parle was a step for East Indian Christian villagers whose paddy patches, fruit and rose gardens were zoned east-west. Each had a freshwater talao, backwater lagoons fed by the sea and tidal marshes reaching till what is SV Road today.