Top 3: Brilliant new literature about Mumbai

?The city as we imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.? -- Jonathan Raban

The Mumbai that most foreigners prefer to imagine is a gritty, dingy place, a third-world city of slums and the underworld, populated by bar dancers and hapless prostitutes, by indigent beggars and mafia dons and corrupt policemen.

But there are a hundred other Bombays that only the people who live here ever encounter, cities of the past, the present, even in some small way, the future, cohabiting side by side like unruly isotopes.read more

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