Muses Over Mumbai by Murzban F. Shroff. Published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd, 2nd Floor, LSC Building No. 4, DDA Complex, Pocket C-6 & 7, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070; website: www.bloomsbury.com Pp: xii + 248. Price: Rs 699.
Murderous cabbies, wisdom-spouting gurus, builders of opulent skyscrapers, girls who survive by sorting through heaps of garbage, silver-tongued lawyers, mangy strays. These are some of the characters who make up the city at the heart of Muses Over Mumbai, the new book by Murzban F. Shroff.
In this collection of 17 short stories, lives crisscross and collide, run at parallel......