About the Book: Maya Nagari Bombay Mumbai: A City in Stories
'You cannot catch a city in words. You cannot catch a city at all, write the
editors of this anthology. So how do you get the spirit of Indias great
metropolis, the Maya Nagari, the city of dreams, between the covers of a book?
Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto decide to bring together their favourite short
stories about the city they call home, and hope that a narrative will emerge.
And it does—a rich, varied, vibrant portrait of the republic that goes by many
names—Bombay, Mumbai, Momoi, Bambai and many others.
In the twentyone stories of