Home in the City. Bombay 1977 – Mumbai 2017 by Sooni Taraporevala. Published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers, A-75, Sector 57, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301. Pp: 128. Price: Rs 1,499.
It’s as intimate as looking through a family album. As warm as your Aunty Freni’s parlor, sipping a cup of spicy chai (tea), dusting crumbs off the flaky mawa cake, from a bone china porcelain rose-plate, the last of a set that had been handed down to her from her mother during the time of her wedding. The clamor of the "Maximum City" Mumbai, that was once Bombay has been hushed......