Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. His first book, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found won the Kiriyama Prize, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. It has also recently been short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.

Recent articles

Suketu Mehta describes his last day in Bombay, before returning to “boring” New York, and the Country of the No finally becomes Yes. Fourth and final extract from “Maximum City: Bombay lost and found.”

Suketu Mehta discovers a Bombay culinary delight: vadapav washed down with “Hindu coke”. Mouth-watering third extract from the magnificent “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”.

“Being Muslim or Hindu or Catholic was merely a personal eccentricity, like a hairstyle” but in the second extract from the prize-winning “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, Suketu Mehta also discovers a more sinister force: “powertoni”.

In the first of four exclusive extracts from “Maximum City: Bombay lost and found”, recently short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, Suketu Mehta returns to his childhood city and introduces us to one of Bombay’s many aliases, “the Country of the No”.