Amit's review
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta
Amit's review
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
Amit's review
rating:
Bombay: City of Dreams. City of Nightmares. City of the Vada Pav eaters. Love it, hate it – but read Mehta’s book and you’ll live it. Simply unputdownable!
This book will take you on the ride of your life – meet and chat with various Bombayites, weave through the underworld of Bombay and drinking scotch with the dons and cognac with the hit men, delicately touching the diversity of Bombay’s “cosmopolitan” characters, the sleazy world of “Mumbai” politics with Shiv Sena (the political party that runs Bombay), ride with Bombay’s most incorruptible yet brutally ruthless cop Ajay Lal who has no qualms about using torture, the restaurants and street vendors of Chowpatty, dwell deep into the minds of the wealthiest of millionaires like Sevantibhai and family who renounce all their wealth to become Jain monks, to the penniless teenage runaway poet Babban who’s home in on the street, discover Bollywood from the other side with actors, film makers, writers, like Amitab...more
This book will take you on the ride of your life – meet and chat with various Bombayites, weave through the underworld of Bombay and drinking scotch with the dons and cognac with the hit men, delicately touching the diversity of Bombay’s “cosmopolitan” characters, the sleazy world of “Mumbai” politics with Shiv Sena (the political party that runs Bombay), ride with Bombay’s most incorruptible yet brutally ruthless cop Ajay Lal who has no qualms about using torture, the restaurants and street vendors of Chowpatty, dwell deep into the minds of the wealthiest of millionaires like Sevantibhai and family who renounce all their wealth to become Jain monks, to the penniless teenage runaway poet Babban who’s home in on the street, discover Bollywood from the other side with actors, film makers, writers, like Amitab...more
