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Bombay Lost and Found

by Suketu Mehta (Author) (edit contributors)

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A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door... read more

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Expat Mumbaiker returns to the city of his childhood, enmeshes himself into the human fabric of the mega-city and over seven years produces a 600 page living biography of one of the world’s biggest, badest and most bustling cities. Prepare to have your eyes opened.

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  • “"When you live in a world of fear, you give unlimited power to the state." In overpopulation the government fails, it is usually communism or socialism that is the new government. In Bombay it is the criminal organization. This is the future of the United States and the World unless we, or mother nature control overpopulation.”
    Husain the reporter.
  • “The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over parking places.”
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  • This is the biggest difference between the world’s two largest democracies: In India, the poor vote.
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  • If you want to make sure that the money you send to a poor place will be spent properly, give it to the women who live there.
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  • Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.
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  • Indians do not have the same kind of civic sense as, say, Scandinavians. The boundary of the space you keep clean is marked at the end of the space you call your own.
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  • A man who has made his money through a scam is more respected than a man who has made his money through hard work, because the ethic of Bombay is quick upward mobility and a scam is a shortcut. A scam shows good business sense and a quick mind. Anyone can work hard and make money. What’s to admire about that? But a well-executed scam? Now, there’s a thing of beauty!
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  • Seventy-five percent of the country is below the age of twenty-five. Sunil is representative of this group—a generation that expects something better than their parents had. If they don’t get it, they will be angry. And no family, no country, can withstand the anger of its young.
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  • It was when I first realized I had a new nationality: citizen of the country of longing.
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  • Any urban redevelopment plan has to take into account the curious desire of slum dwellers to live closely together. A greater horror than open gutters and filthy toilets, to the people of Jogeshwari, is the empty room in the big city.
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  • Isn’t that why we have children, after all: to see the world a second time, on their screen?
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  • But you need that inner confidence to project to the numerous gatekeepers, to the toilet attendants; you need first to convince yourself that you belong there, in order to convince others that you do. And then you realize that the most forbidding gatekeeper is within you.
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  1. Suketu Mehta (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0375403728
Page Count: 560

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