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Suketu mehta is a new yorkbased author and an associate professor of journalism at new york university. An ambitious portrait of the megalopolisone that, like its subject, contains worlds but is too big and too crowded for comfort. It was published in hardcover by random houses alfred a. Suketu mehta books list of books by author suketu mehta. As each individual story unfolds, mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Bombay lost and found, suketu mehta relates the story of modern bombay, india or mumbai, as it has been renamed. 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 into the inner sanctums of bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who.
Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians suketu looked at the city through their eyes. Suketu mehta sets out to figure out why the riots in bombay happened, why neighbors killed each other after being neighbors for so long. New york city and on years of reporting around the world, mehta subjects the. Mehta is depressed by his beloved citys transformation, now swelled to 18 million and. Maximum city ebook por suketu mehta 9780307574312 rakuten.
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