Maximum City
I started Maximum city with a strange feeling of excitement and trepidation. I have lived away for 6 years, and every year that I come back, I travel by rickshaws and cars ( not usually trains), since time is short and most of the people I know live in the suburbs, I almost never going up to the town I knew as my own. So now, with book about the rediscovery of Mumbai in hand and an extended vacation to boot, I decide I will explore Mumbai, a s a tourist in my own city. Maximum city is the autobiographical story of Suketu Mehta’s rediscovery of the city he lived 15 years ago. The book released in 2004, so everything new is 10 years old. But the changes in the beating megapolis that took place in those 10 years. I lived in India in the 10 years , but I was too young, leading a life that was sheltered and protected from the life that is described in MC. However I’ll say this though, after a chapter on Power shifts between Shiv Sena and Mumbai and Mumbai Police and encounter special...