About the Book: The Diamond-encrusted Rat Trap
At seventeen, in the year 1957, Adil Jussawalla left Bombay for London, in
search of something brighter and grander. Thirteen years later, he returned to
the city of his birth, and it was the beginning of a lifelong bitter-sweet love
affair. The great metropolis became a defining presence in his poetry and prose,
and he an important and distinctive part of its literary landscape. This book
brings together Jussawallas prose pieces on Bombay-Mumbai, written between 1980
and 2002. 'His city, as Jerry Pinto writes in the introduction, 'is built of
chance encounters, of laughing liftmen, of departed friends