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"Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found", Suketu Mehta

Tim wrote 1 month ago: Synopsis: Expat Mumbaiker returns to the city of his childhood, enmeshes himself into the human fabr … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, History, asian, Travel

Danny Boyle: The Messiah!

monadarlingblog wrote 1 month ago: Danny Boyle is intoxicated! With the success of his film Slumdog Millionaire, he is finding it hard … more →

Tags: Bollywood, Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle, mumbai, shekar kapur, Shekar Kapur’s Paani, Paani, Anurag Kashyap, Futuristic film

Simon Beaufoy to write Danny Boyle's next - adaptation of Maximum City

moifightclub wrote 1 month ago: Its official. Simon Beaufoy has confirmed the news to Daily Telegraph. You can read more about it  h … more →

Tags: Cinema, Bollywood, writing, News, Hollywood, Etc, Cast & Crew, Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle to cast Aamir Khan in a film version of Maximum City?6 comments

missmalini wrote 1 month ago: Aamir Khan and Danny Boyle Guess what, guess what?! This just if from Digital Spy Aamir Khan has rep … more →

Tags: Bollywood, Random Thoughts, Rich & Restless, juicy gossip, Aamir Khan, Danny Boyle, Gregory David Roberts, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, Johnny Depp

Xclusive : Danny Boyle has bought the rights of "Maximum City"1 comment

moifightclub wrote 1 month ago: The news was doing the rounds since last few weeks. And it seems to be true. After the success of Sl … more →

Tags: Bollywood, Cinema, Etc, Hollywood, News, writing, Xclusive, Aamir Khan, book

Trust or Anti trust2 comments

eddieskitchen wrote 2 months ago: I guess there is something in trust that no one can explain. Why sometime the closest of friends … more →

Tags: Life, Relationships, 26.11., 26/11 mumbai, experience?, gossiping, life at iit, Maximum City, Politics

Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons

squaresofwheat wrote 3 months ago: Victoria/Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Bombay/Mumbai It’s all the same for tourists and terror … more →

Tags: Architecture, Art, death, Design, eno, film, housing, patrick keiller, Politics

This is a man

Marc wrote 3 months ago: Roberto Saviano has been living undercover since his book Gomorrah was published three years ago. It … more →

Tags: Bookmarks, Italy, Roberto Saviano, Gomorrah, david grossman, Paul Auster, Terror, camorra

Every picture tells a tale. Babu's can fill a tome.8 comments

churumuri wrote 3 months ago: Unlike India’s big cities, “happening” Bangalore has had a stunning inability to … more →

Tags: media, Mysore-Bangalore, Nandan Nilekani, churumuri, sans-serif, Khushwant Singh, Thomas L. Friedman, mg road, Slumdog Millionaire

Maximum City - Suketu Mehta

Ravi Chander wrote 5 months ago: After reading  Sacred Games, I was keen to read the above book. The recent Mumbai attacks had incre … more →

Tags: India, book, mumbai, Maximum City

Book Review: Maximum City by Suketu Mehta3 comments

anandrr wrote 6 months ago: I first visited Bombay as a young teenager, and it was a case of love at first sight. There is an en … more →

Tags: capitalism, Reviews, Literature, Book Review, Bollywood, Maximum City, Bombay, Jains, beer bar dancers

In Which Salman Rushdie Dubs Pakistan a "Basket Case"

Leigh Kamping-Carder wrote 7 months ago: food stalls at Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai, April, 2007 On Wednesday, I went to a talk at the Asia Socie … more →

Tags: musings, Asia Society, Chowpatty Beach, India, Maximum City, Mira Kamdar, mumbai, Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan

A great way to give back from a very cool kid

asridhar wrote 7 months ago: (Hat tip to SAJA Forum) Budding philanthropist Akash Mehta is seeking your support for Sambhavna, an … more →

Tags: SAPProject, Akash Mehta, Bhopal, Kids for a Better Future, Maximum City, Saja!!, sakhi, Sambhavna, Sunita Viswanath

Book Review--Maximum City by Suketu Mehta4 comments

minnesotameetskarnataka wrote 7 months ago: For the past few weeks I’ve been reading this on lunch breaks and on the train.  First off, it … more →

Tags: Books, India, US, Book Review, mumbai, Maximum City

'The media is not the message. Viewer is king'6 comments

churumuri wrote 7 months ago: The aftermath of the terror attack on Bombay has seen the tiresome game of shoot-the-messenger being … more →

Tags: For the Record, Television, Issues and Ideas, facebook, Barkha Dutt, NDTV, churumuri, sans-serif, Vir Sanghvi

Back in business, we're on our way... eating, drinking, happily 'forwarding'.

chitralekhan wrote 7 months ago: Indeed, Leopold Cafe in Mumbai has re-opened… unafraid, defiant, resilient. Carlsberg and Coke … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Satire, India, mumbai, Email Forwards, terrorist attacks, Leopold Cafe, Terrorism, Public Opinion

What They Hate About Mumbai....4 comments

biscuitinabasket wrote 7 months ago: Suketu Mehta has written an outstanding book on Mumbai called Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. H … more →

Tags: Posts, India, New York Times, united states, mumbai, Maharashtra, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, Asia

The Jewel in the Crown1 comment

judylobo wrote 7 months ago: I have spent much of the last few days reading about India, perusing my personal India travel journa … more →

Tags: Politics, Links, Photography, videos, Travel, Moombai, Slumdog Milionaire, Bollywood, Taj Mahal

what they hate about mumbai2 comments

angryxer wrote 7 months ago: Excellent op-ed by Suketu Mehta; an excerpt does not do it justice.   My bleeding city. My poor grea … more →

Tags: New York Times, What They Hate About Mumbai, terrorist attack on mumbai


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