| #346725 in Books | Gyan Prakash | 2011-10-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x1.00 x5.70l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 408 pages | Mumbai Fables||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Promise Unfulfilled|By Aalif Surti|Gyan Prakash's Mumbai Fables begins with a riveting excerpt from an unpublished 1927 thriller novel written by the amusingly-named Pherozeshaw Chevalier (Chaiwala) based in Mumbai. With it, Gyan Prakah sets out the alluring premise of the book - to explore the soft city of illusion, myth, aspirations and nightmares, rather than the hard city o||"The best test of a city's biography, like [Mumbai Fables], is whether it makes the reader want to visit of not. Those who do, having read this book, will have a perceptive, if quirky, insight as their guide."--Times Literary Supplement
A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, a...
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