streetlight and making a success of their life or of couples meeting here and marrying later lovers meet here students solve the equations of life leaning against the tall white doric columns and the idler his head pillowed by dreams watches the world speed by the bombay builder a 19thcentury publication which took a sledgehammer to the architecture of its day calls it a decayed old beau of the last century whose wig sits awry and whose false teeth are falling out she points to the garden ahead and says innocent of any desire to pun theyve gone to hornimanwhat has really frozen the steps in public memory is bollywood a mangalore boy prabhakar has rented a tiny space in khar but prefers the freedom of the steps it remains a shrine for a handful of scholars but as the citys premier repository of knowledge it has dismal public recall