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Book review: The Only City, Bombay in Eighteen Stories, edited by Anindita Ghose

Bombay stories This anthology joins the canon of other books on ‘the only city’ as Khushwant Singh once called Bombay. Edited by Anindita Ghose, it has contributions by a diverse and exciting mix of writers, names well known and relatively unknown to readers. We see the city — challenging, impersonal, complex, careworn, unforgiving, complicated —…

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Book review: Paradise Towers by Shweta Bachchan-Nanda

  Not so towering A close look at people living out their less- than- celebrated lives in a Mumbai apartment block. We`ve had a rash of celebs turning authors, with Twinkle Khanna in the vanguard and others like Rishi Kapoor, Karan Johar, Soha Ali Khan,  and now Shweta Bachchan Nanda, following in her wake. Let…

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