![]() “ Urbs Prima in Indis reads the plaque outside the Gateway of India. “There will soon be more people living in the city of Bombay than on the continent of Australia,” Mehta writes. Mumbai, as it had since been renamed, was a turbulent city of massive proportions a city of incredible diversity marred by complex sectarian strife a city of incredible poverty co-existing with astounding wealth a city with so many people packed together that it defies its own boundaries a city so complexly human it becomes a metaphor for humanity itself. Growing up between worlds, Mehta, an investigative journalist, returned frequently to Bombay to report on it, finally moving back, with his entire family in tow, in 1998. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, Maximum City is as engrossing as it is insightful, and as absorbing as any novel.īorn in Calcutta in 1963, Mehta moved to Bombay, as it was called then, as a toddler, and nine years later moved to New York. Today, Maximum City stands as one of the great urban narratives of any city. ![]() ![]() Eight years ago, Suketu Mehta published one of the great books about Mumbai (née Bombay). ![]()
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