Bombay Meri Jaan

<p><b>One of the <i>Guardian</i>'s 10 Best Books set in Mumbai </b></p><p><b>An invaluable literary guide to the mercurial city of Mumbai</b></p><p>A heady potpourri of ethnic linguistic and religious subcultures Bombay renamed Mumbai after the goddess Mumbadevi defies definition. But through a remarkable collection of poems and prose pieces by giants of literature in addition to cartoons photographs a song and a Bombay Duck recipe <i>Bombay Meri Jaan</i> tries to capture the spirit of this great metropolis. </p><p>Salman Rushdie Pico Iyer Dilip Chitre Saadat Hasan Manto V.S. Naipaul and Khushwant Singh 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. </p><p>Vibrant engaging and provocative this is an anthology as rich and varied as the city it celebrates.</p>