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I read this after reading The Siege because this book is referred to several times in that one. The book chronicles the lives of several people in the city of Mumbai (Bombay). Because the focus shifts on each section of the book. I found the section on the bar dancers, police, and...
Circa 1992. It was a regular school day on a lovely December morning(winters are warm not cold in Bombay).With just an hour left to mid-morning recess, there was a sudden flurry of anxious announcements calling certain students to report immediately with their belongings at the Principal’s office. A...
How do you find words to capture a city's essence? Mehta took on this task with one of the world's biggest cities, Bombay, India. He lurked around the Bombay underworld, he skulked around the Bombay bar district, and he lingered among Bombay elite-turned-religious monks. I ended up feeling much the ...
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