Maximum City
By Suketu Mehta
By Suketu Mehta
By Suketu Mehta
By Suketu Mehta
Category: Travel: Asia | Asian World History
Category: Travel: Asia | Asian World History
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$18.00
Sep 27, 2005 | ISBN 9780375703409
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Oct 21, 2009 | ISBN 9780307574312
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Praise
“Stunning. . . . A powerful, arresting work. . . . Marvelous.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Narrative reporting at its finest, probably the best work of nonfiction to come out of India in recent years. . . . Mehta succeeds so brilliantly in taking the pulse of this riotous urban jungle.” –The New York Times Book Review
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 City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
“What Dickens did for London, what Joseph Mitchell did for New York City, Suketu Mehta has done for Bombay. . . . A candid, extensive, and wholly entertaining portrait.” –San Diego Union-Tribune
“The ultimate insider’s view of Bombay, a roiling and vigorous account that delivers on a seemingly impossible challenge: how to limn the diversity and sprawl of such a place in a single book.” –The Seattle Times
Table Of Contents
PART ONE * POWER
Personal Geography
—The Country of the No
—Two Currencies
Powertoni
—The 1992–93 Riots
—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
Afterword
Acknowledgments
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