Maximum City
Bombay Lost and Found
Published on 21. October 2009
560 pages
978-0-307-57431-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
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Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's other work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper's magazine, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Village Voice, and has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Mehta also cowrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I - Power
- Chapter 1 - Personal Geography
- The Country of the No
- Two Currencies
- Chapter 2 - Powertoni
- The 1992-93 Riots
- Elections 1998
- The Saheb
- Chapter 3 - Mumbai
- Chapter 4 - Number Two After Scotland Yard
- Ajay Lal: The Blasts and the Gangwar
- Encounter
- Chapter 5 - Black-Collar Workers
- Mohsin: The D-Company
- Satish: The Dal Badlu
- Chotta Shakeel: The Don in Exile
- Part II - Pleasure
- Chapter 6 - Vadapav Eaters' City
- Chapter 7 - A City in Heat
- Monalisa Dances
- Golpitha
- Two Lives: Honey/Manoj
- New Year's Eve
- Chapter 8 - Distilleries of Pleasure
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra:
- Mahesh Bhatt's Wound
- The Struggler and the Goddess
- Accused: Sanjay Dutt
- Dreamworld/Underworld
- Part III - Passages
- Chapter 9 - Memory Mines
- Mayur Mahal Multipurpose
- A World of Children
- Chapter 10 - Sone ki Chidiya
- Girish: A Tourist in His City
- Babbanji: Runaway Poet
- Adjust
- Chapter 11 - Good-bye World
- Chapter 12 - A Self in the Crowd
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
