India
Early closing times, expensive licences, and — despite both — one of the fastest-improving club scenes anywhere.
Cities
1 city with a published scene.
The national ranking
The rooms that matter most in India, across every city.
Bonobo
A terraced Bandra house that has been the reliable centre of Mumbai’s underground for over a decade. Small, unpretentious, consistently the best booking in the city.
antiSOCIAL
A basement built for live music that turned into the city’s most important room for local electronic acts.
Trincas
Live bands on Park Street since 1959, through every phase of the city’s history. The last of its generation still doing it properly.
Toto’s Garage
A car-repair-shop theme, a jukebox of rock, and the least fashionable good time in Bandra. Unchanged since 1993 and all the better for it.
Slink & Bardot
AER
The thirty-fourth floor of the Four Seasons, open to the sea on every side. Come for the hour before sunset.
Bastian
Kitty Su Mumbai
One of the very few explicitly queer club nights operating at scale in India, and one that takes that responsibility seriously.
Asilo
Someplace Else
The Park Hotel’s pub, and the room that kept Indian rock alive when nowhere else would book it.
Olypub
Fluorescent lights, wooden tables, and a rum-and-kabab ritual that has not changed in seventy years. Not a club. Absolutely a night institution.