It is the setting for eyeing the town's beau and dates. In India there is a popular informal pre marriage ceremony called showing the girl. The marriages are mostly arranged and the boy and the girl are allowed to meet to determine the other as suitable under the observant eye of the family elders. Such meeting is set at a mutually convenient location but without fuss so that finishing the conciliation is without discomfiture. Such groups can be sighted very often and we know couple that met for the first time here.
Some enthusiasts also celebrate their anniversaries here with some fan fare.
The place has some commercial value and fresh air environs are used for sales briefings too. One can spot tie-clad salesmen planning their day's work in the morning. The circle is three-forth of a kilometer and the fitness freaks can work out their daily dose. The afternoons are taken over by the squatters protesting on grievances to the government. Of course the brightest spot are the eateries, it is there in its entire spread of Mumbai infiltrates like the bhels and paus, the American adoptions of the burgers, the British patties, hot and spicy and the universal ice creams and its local cousin kulfi.