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About Suketu Mehta

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.

Articles by Suketu Mehta

Tuesday 31st May

Passages: a Self in the Crowd

Suketu Mehta, 31 May 2005
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.”
Tuesday 24th May

Pleasure: Vadapav Eaters' City

Suketu Mehta, 24 May 2005
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”.
Thursday 19th May

Powertoni

Suketu Mehta, 19 May 2005
“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”.
Thursday 12th May

The Country of the No

Suketu Mehta, 12 May 2005
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”.
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