Difficult Quote by Suketu Mehta

The great thing about Bombay is its open, generous heart. I hope - I know - that this spirit will endure. Bombay will adjust.

— Suketu Mehta

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

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

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

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

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

In the looking, I found the cities within me.

— Suketu Mehta

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

“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

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.

— Suketu Mehta

“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

“It is the sexual frenzy of a closed society, and the women of Golpitha are the gutters for these men's emissions.”

— Suketu Mehta