Indres's review
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta
Indres's review
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Indres's review
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Suketu Mehta was born in Bombay and moved to NY when he was teenager. One day, as a father of two young children, he decided to go back to his former hometown, Bombay, to introduce his boys to their roots. Alas, Bombay has already changed; it even changed its name to Mumbai.
Here, in this book, Suketu Mehta traced the change in his beloved city, tracked down whom behind the change and the new shape of this city and why the change happened. From gangsters, dancing girls, cops, young entrepreneur, movie stars to Jain monk, he extracted extraordinary individual story about Bombay. Indeed, for each Bombayite, no matter how worse Bombay treats them; its charm always wins their heart back.
The problems which trouble Bombay such as huge gap between rich and poor, corrupt cops and politicians, religion sentiments, transportation problem, pollution, echoes with that of Jakarta. So similar the description is, it gives me shiver. Well, in the second thought probably that is the character ...more
Here, in this book, Suketu Mehta traced the change in his beloved city, tracked down whom behind the change and the new shape of this city and why the change happened. From gangsters, dancing girls, cops, young entrepreneur, movie stars to Jain monk, he extracted extraordinary individual story about Bombay. Indeed, for each Bombayite, no matter how worse Bombay treats them; its charm always wins their heart back.
The problems which trouble Bombay such as huge gap between rich and poor, corrupt cops and politicians, religion sentiments, transportation problem, pollution, echoes with that of Jakarta. So similar the description is, it gives me shiver. Well, in the second thought probably that is the character ...more
