maximum city lost and found by suketu mehta

Isn’t it hard to imagine reading such a huge (and largely admired) book and find towards the end that nothing really surprised you, that nothing was revelatory - and this about a city you have never even lived in? Is your own insight so great, or maybe the book is perhaps a bit shallow? Surely, the second is the more plausible option. Mehta gives a rare and more direct view, but yet fails to capture a perfect shot, or even a good-enough one.

The ones always on the margins, and yet always in the spotlight. Why? Both comes from Newspaper headlines and Movie stories - it is the sensational Mumbai, the most interesting parts, perhaps even the parts with most vitality. But yet, the Mumbai you know and the Mumbai Suketu Mehta ‘finds’ are uncomfortably similar. You might have bought ‘Maximum City’ thinking you would get a comprehensive idea on how Bombay works. The cover boasts, without blushing.Īssume that you don’t know Mumbai. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.Ī native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. He has also written an original screenplay for 'The Goddess,' a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner, and 'Mission Kashmir', a Bollywood movie. He is currently working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship. Mehta is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Mehta's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and CondÃ© Nast Traveler, and has been featured on NPR's 'Fresh Air'.

Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O.

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of 'Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,' which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.

Maximum city lost and found by suketu mehta