"While putting together an anthology such as this one is not rocket science, it tends to have its own challenges...Friends become repositories of wisdom and talk about the ancient hamam in South Bombay where you can still have a Turkish Bath...others suggest impossible photo-essays on the interiors of the Governor's bungalow or a dog's eye-view of the city. Everyone has a Bombay story, a Bombay they want represented. And everyone's Bombay is not the Bombay we thought we knew.
"When we started on this project, we were clear: we wanted to serve up the taste of the Lived Bombay rather than the more exotic flavors of the Visited Bombay. This is a vision of Bombay, stereoscopic, multiple, fuzzy, alienated, integrated, all of the above."
-- Excerpt from Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai edited by Jerry Pinto and Naresh Fernandes, with poems and prose on the city by renown names like Nissim Ezekiel, Pico Iyer, Khushwant Singh, Rudyard Kipling, Salman Rushdie, Sunil Gavaskar, VS Naipaul, Busybee and so on and on and on.
Available in all bookstores for Rs. 395.
ME: Why did I not think of writing this book????? Sounds like it must have been fun to compile!
Anyway, am back to the drudgery of writing one of the most boring pieces that I have ever encountered in my journalistic capacity. Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
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