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Maximum City
by Suketu Mehta
Mumbai, all of it, from inside every layer.
For you if
you want to understand Mumbai as the most extreme version of what a city can be — the beauty and the violence inseparable
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Mehta grew up in Mumbai, moved to New York, and went back as a journalist to understand the city that had formed him. What he found was a Mumbai of extraordinary density and contradiction — the Bollywood dream factory, the criminal underworld, the bar dancers, the police encounter killings, the Shiv Sena's Hindu nationalism, the diamond merchants, the migrant millions. He spent two years embedded in every layer of it. The most comprehensive single-volume dispatch from inside Mumbai ever written. A visitor who is also native — the perfect position for this particular city.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- India • South Asia
- Themes
- Atrocity UnmaskedWitness
