The great thing about Bombay is its open, generous heart. I hope - I know - that this spirit will endure. Bombay will adjust. — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
The great thing about Bombay is its open, generous heart. I hope - I know - that this spirit will endure. Bombay will adjust. — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
Indian Muslims have stayed very far away from Al Qaeda and the like; they have voted with their feet and stayed in the country,… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand Institute in… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the country pick… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
“The man who comes to fix the cable approaches her when she is alone in the house. 'Is there anything to eat?' he asks.… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
“The stacks of pav have been sprinkled with chutney— the top half of the inside of the bun is bathed in green chutney, the… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
Commuter trains are the easiest target for terrorists, as we have seen in Madrid, London, and now Bombay. But it is difficult for a… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
“It is the sexual frenzy of a closed society, and the women of Golpitha are the gutters for these men's emissions.” — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
There have always been elements in the Pakistani state that have been hostile to India; which is not to say that the Pakistani government… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city.… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share
