Endure 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.”

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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…

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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…

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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…

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In the looking, I found the cities within me.

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Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the country pick…

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“The man who comes to fix the cable approaches her when she is alone in the house. 'Is there anything to eat?' he asks.…

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

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“The stacks of pav have been sprinkled with chutney— the top half of the inside of the bun is bathed in green chutney, the…

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

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