It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of… — 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 Image
A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As… — 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 Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand Institute in Washington DC. This would have helped the city enormously, as he was the detective who cracked the '93 blasts case. But the commissioner declined to let his subordinate take up the offer from Rand, because of… — 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 Image
And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you’re from Bombay or… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
