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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found |
A brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people-a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself-from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist.
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us a true insider's view of this stunning city, bringing to his account a rare level of insight, detail, and intimacy. He approaches the city from unexpected angles-taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs who wrest control of the city's byzantine political and commercial systems . . . following the life of a bar dancer who chose the only life available to her after a childhood of poverty and abuse . . . opening the doors onto the fantastic, hierarchical inner sanctums of Bollywood . . . delving into the stories of the countless people who come from the villages in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks-the essential saga of a great city endlessly played out.
Through it all-as each individual story unfolds-we hear Mehta's own story: of the mixture of love, frustration, fascination, and intense identification he feels for and with Bombay, as he tries to find home again after twenty-one years abroad. And he makes clear that Bombay-the world's largest city-is a harbinger of the vast megalopolises that will redefine the very idea of "the city" in the near future.
Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, "Maximum City" is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
| Indice e argomenti trattati |
| | | | 3 | | | | 17 | | | | 26 | | | | 39 | | | | 40 | | | | 64 | | | | 96 | | | | 113 | | | Number Two After Scotland Yard |
| | 131 | | | Ajay Lal: The Blasts and the Gangwar |
| | 131 | | | | 168 | | | | 185 | | | | 190 | | | | 206 | | | Chotta Shakeel: The Don in Exile |
| | 234 | | | | | | 253 | | | | 264 | | | | 269 | | | | 314 | | | | 320 | | | | 338 | | | | 346 | | | Vidhu Vinod Chopra: Mission Kashmir |
| | 352 | | | | 375 | | | The Struggler and the Goddess |
| | 385 | | | | 406 | | | | 415 | | | | | | 433 | | | | 435 | | | | 446 | | | | 450 | | | Girish: A Tourist in His City |
| | 450 | | | | 473 | | | | 491 | | | | 497 | | | | 535 | | | Afterword | | 541 | | | Acknowledgments | | 543 | |
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