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A marriage of affluence and abject poverty, where a grey concrete
jungle is the backdrop to a heady potpourri of ethnic, linguistic
and religious subcultures, Bombay, renamed Mumbai after the goddess
Mumbadevi, defies definition. Bombay, Meri Jaan, comprising poems
and prose pieces by some of the biggest names in literature, in
addition to cartoons, photographs, a song and a Bombay Duck recipe,
tries to capture the spirit of this great metropolis. Salman
Rushdie, Pico Iyer, Dilip Chitre, Saadat Hasan Manto, V.S. Naipaul,
Khushwant Singh and Busybee, among others, write about aspects of
the city: the high-rise apartments and the slums; camaraderie and
isolation in the crowded chawls; bhelpuri on the beach and cricket
in the gully; the women's compartment of a local train; encounter
cops who battle the underworld; the jazz culture of the sixties;
the monsoon floods; the Shiv Sena; the cinema halls; the sea.
Vibrant, engaging and provocative, this is an anthology as rich and
varied as the city it celebrates.
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