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Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai
Edited by - Jerry Pinto, Naresh Fernandes
[dot2.gif] Penguin India
[dot2.gif] 0143029665 | Paperback
[dot2.gif] Format: Demy | 356 pages | Rs 395
[dot2.gif] Published : 9/15/2003
[dot2.gif] Territory : World
When King Charles II of England married Princess Catherine de Braganza
of Portugal in 1661, he received as part of his dowry the isles of Bom
Bahia, the Good Bay. Reclaimed from the sea, these would become the
modern city of Bombay. 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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