Main entry:

Mehta, Suketu.

Title & Author:

Maximum city : Bombay lost and found / Suketu Mehta.

Edition:

1st Vintage Departures ed.

Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2005, ©2004.

Description:

xii, 542 pages : 1 map ; 20 cm

Notes:
Power -- Personal geography -- The country of the No -- Two currencies -- Powertoni -- The 1992-93 riots -- Elections 1998 -- The Saheb -- Mumbai -- Number two after Scotland Yard -- Ajay Lal: The blasts and the Gangwar -- Encounter -- Black-collar workers -- Mohsin: The D-Company -- Satish: The Dal Badlu -- Chotta Shakeel: The Don in exile -- Pleasure -- Vadapav Eaters' City -- A city in heat -- Monalisa dances -- Golpitha -- Two lives: Honey/Manoj -- New Year's Eve -- Distilleries of Pleasure -- Vidhu Vinod Chopra: Mission Kashmir -- Mahesh Bhatt's wound -- The struggler and the goddess -- Accused: Sanjay Dutt -- Dreamworld/underworld -- Passages -- Memory mines -- Mayur Mahal Multipurpose -- A world of children -- Sone ki Chidiya -- Girish: A tourist in his city -- Babbanji: Runaway poet -- Adjust -- Good-bye world -- A self in the Crowd.

Summary:

A portrait of Bombay, India, and its people chronicles the everyday life of the city and its inhabitants, from the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs to the diverse people who come from the villages in search of a better life.

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ISBN:

0375703403
9780375703409

Subject:

Mehta, Suketu Travel India Mumbai.
Mehta, Suketu
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology.
HISTORY / Asia / South.
TRAVEL / Asia / India.
Travel
Mumbai (India) Description and travel.
India Description and travel.
India Mumbai
Bombay
Mumbai

Form/genre:

Bericht.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249057
Call No.: BIB 178632
Status: Available