"This (Murder In old Bombay: A Mystery) is also a novel about how our social mores control us and prevent us from being our full selves. It dictates whom we can be friends with and include in our sect. It’s a form of racism... I do believe that the people who are promoting this orthodoxy are good, generous and devout. In fact, I love so many of them. But, this thinking often results in hurt, and that’s why I believe, it is flat out wrong.”
Nev March (Navaz Merchant), writer,
sunday mid-day, November 21, 2021
"(Tata director A. D.) Shroff
later bemoaned......