In Maximum City, Suketu Mehta’s portrait of Bombay, we discover the “biggest, fastest, richest city in India.” Mehta, a journalist who now lives in New York, returns to the city of his youth after a 21-year absence to investigate the bloody riots of 1992-1993. What he finds is a city lost and found. According to Mehta, the city — now referred to as Mumbai — has always had multiple aliases, “as do gangsters and whores.” To read the full story, click here.
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