Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Travel)
  • Author:  Mehta, Suketu
  • Author:  Mehta, Suketu
  • ISBN-10:  0375703403
  • ISBN-10:  0375703403
  • ISBN-13:  9780375703409
  • ISBN-13:  9780375703409
  • Publisher:  Vintage
  • Publisher:  Vintage
  • Pages:  560
  • Pages:  560
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2005
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2005
  • SKU:  0375703403-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  0375703403-11-SPLV
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A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.

As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending,Maximum Cityis a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.

PART ONE * POWER
Personal Geography
The Country of the No
Two Currencies
Powertoni
The 1992–93Riots
Elections 1998
The Saheb
Mumbai
Number Two After Scotland Yard
Ajay Lal: The Blasts and the Gangwar
Encounter
Black-Collar Workers
Mohsin: The D-Company
Satish: The Dal Badlu
Chotta Shakeel: The Don in Exile

PART TWO * PLEASURE
Vadapav Eaters’ City
A City in Heat
Monalisa Dances
Golpitha
Two Lives: Honey/Manoj
New Year’s Eve
Distilleries of Pleasure
Vidhu Vinod Chopra:Mission Kashmir
Mahesh Bhatt’s Wound
The Struggler and the Goddess
Accused: Sanjay Dutt
Dreamworld/Underworld

PART THREE * PASSAGES
Memory Mines
Mayur Mahal Multipurpose
A World of Children
Sone ki Chidiya
Girish: A Tourist in His City
Babbanji: Runaway Poet
Adjust
Good-bye World
A Self in the Crowd

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