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Author: Pinki Virani
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2001-03-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9352140745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising Three Novellar And Four Short Stories, To Be Read As Stand-Alone Or Inter-Linked Pieces, This Is An Engaging Piece Of Literary Non-Fiction Rich In Memories And Insights.
Author: Suketu Mehta
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0307574318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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 into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Author: Jenny Ashcroft
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1250270278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is. Jenny Ashcroft's "Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy." –Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives. Bold and charismatic, Luke opens her eyes to the wonders of Bombay, while Maddy's beauty and vivacity captures his heart. Only her mother disapproves, preferring the devoted Guy Bowen as a match for her daughter. But while Maddy and Luke are falling in love, the world is falling apart. World War I is on the horizon, and Luke will be given no choice but to fight. They will be continents apart, separated by danger and devastating loss, but bound by Luke's promise that they will meet again in Bombay.
Author: Prashant Kidambi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0190061707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating history of a great cosmopolitan port and industrial city
Author: Mrinalini Harchandrai
Publisher: Bombaykala Books
Published: 2018-12-25
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9788193835364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA BOMBAY IN MY BEAT is a literary ear to the songs and frequencies from the music player as well as the soundtracks of the city, which find their way into a personal expression. With a nod to the jazz poetry of Langston Hughes and the inflected locution of Beat Generation poets, here is a collection that searches out the sound of slanting truths. The result is a sonorous vaudeville on the page that is poignant, whimsical and intimate, exploring themes on anything from urbanness, politics, human connection and Louis Armstrong's baritone.Praise for the Book"To me it seems that some volatile energy has created and crafted Mrinalini's poems in this volume. The reader is caught by the scruff of his or her neck and thrown into a cauldron of sound that is pleasing to the ear despite its frenetic pace."- Keki N. Daruwalla, Padma Shri awarded poet, writer and critic"Mrinalini Harchandrai's A Bombay In My Beat is inventive, visceral poetry. She seeks herself - as if by echolocation - through the city's cacophony and sonic harmonies to reach towards a meditative silence. Internal rhythms, quotations from songs, riffs and refrains create an almost tangible sensory ensemble in which we too participate."- Priya Sarukkai Chabria, poet, writer, translator and editor of Poetry at Sangam"This is a collection that fuses words with sounds, a peculiar phenomenon that renders the poems musical."- Namrata Pathak, PhD, poet and Assistant Professor of EnglishAbout the AuthorMRINALINI HARCHANDRAI is a writer mostly based in Mumbai. Her writing features on several literary platforms, most recently including Juggernaut, Muse India, The Joao Roque Literary Journal, Vayavya and Earthen Lamp Journal. Her work has been anthologized in The Brave New World of Goan Writing 2018 and RLFPA Editions' Best Indian Poetry 2018. Her poem won first prize in The Barre (2017) and she was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018.
Author: Jane Borges
Publisher: Tranquebar
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789389152081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the nineteenth century: among them, the Goans and the Mangaloreans. Looking for safe harbour, livelihood, and a new place to call home. Communities congregated around churches and markets, sharing lord and land with the native East Indians. The young among them were nudged on to the path of marriage, procreation and godliness, though noble intentions were often ambushed by errant love and plain and simple lust. As in the story of Annette and Benji (and Joe) or Michael and Merlyn (and Ellena). Lovers and haters, friends and family, married men and determined singles, churchgoers and abstainers, Bombay Balchão is a tangled tale of ordinary lives - of a woman who loses her husband to a dockyard explosion and turns to bootlegging, a teen romance that drowns like a paper boat, a social misfit rescued by his addiction to crosswords, a wife who tries to exorcise the spirit of her dead mother-in-law from her husband, a rebellious young woman who spurns true love for the abandonment of dance. Ordinary, except when seen through their own eyes.
Author: Jitendra Dixit
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-03-18
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9390358779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMumbai is an ever-evolving city, bustling and brimming, never sleeping for a wink. But the past four decades brought upheavals of great magnitude that shaped the city as we know today. Marred by communal riots, gang wars and terrorism, the spirit of Mumbai has emerged indomitable every single time. Born and raised in the lanes of Bombay 3, this is the story of Jagan Kumar who dreams of being a television journalist and changing the world. But once he achieves this, he realises that television journalism has lost its path, now afflicted with sensationalism, corruption and bias. As a crime reporter, he comes across various unscrupulous means that law enforcement agencies adopt to combat organised crime syndicates. He is shocked to witness interdepartmental rivalry that often jeopardises public security. Disenchanted, in conflict with his conscience and confused about his calling, he is about to quit when something happens that changes the course of his life. Bombay 3 begins from the bylanes of old Bombay of the seventies and then takes you to Mosul in ISIS's Iraq of 2014 and finally to the streets of Bangkok where the underworld of Mumbai has spread its tentacles. A fast-paced thriller, it answers certain questions about life in Mumbai and raises a few new ones.
Author: Vikram Chandra
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-05-05
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0571267165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. 'When Midnight's Children first arrived on the scene, it became necessary to revaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection - his second book - it is time to take stock again . . . Breathtaking.' Observer
Author: Shilpa Agarwal
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 156947558X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the supernatural weaves into the narrative of family life, the Mittals must struggle to come to terms with the secrets that had been locked away behind a mysterious bolted door. Themes of hidden shame, forbidden love and a call for absolute sacrifice enrich this beautifully written novel. Agarwal unfolds the story against an intense portrait of Bombay, delving into the world of the slum-dwellers, prostitutes and hermaphrodites who survive on the peripheries of Indian society.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780618056804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is the story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The book follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi Germany and his Jewish heritage for Calcutta, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end.
