Colaba: The Diamond at the Tip of Mumbai by Shabnam Minwalla. Published in 2020 by Speaking Tiger Books LLP, 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110002; website: speakingtigerbooks.com. Pp: 178. Price: Rs 499.
The book’s dustjacket describes it as a "compelling biography.” Online news magazine scroll.in that printed extracts called it a "personal history.” Colaba is both. Having lived most of her life on the cusp between the bastion of Parsidom that is Cusrow Baug, and the Little Sind of 1st Pasta Lane, journalist and author of children’s books, Shabnam Minwalla has infused Colaba with personal anecdotes, oral histories of......