Suketu Mehta
Born
Calcutta, India
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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2004
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
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2019
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La vida secreta de las ciudades
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What is Remembered
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2016
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Betsy Karel: Bombay Jadoo
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2007
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The Common: No. 09
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Ein Mann Zum Träumen
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Alphabet
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Wer erntet noch die Pferdeäpfel. Heiterer Roman.
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Lügen, lästern, lieben.
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“And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you’re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that you’re trying to get to the city of gold, and that’s enough. Come on board, they say. We’ll adjust.”
― Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
― Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
“It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.”
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“A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.”
― Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
― Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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