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.

Passages: a Self in the Crowd

My last day in Bombay is a Sunday, the beginning or the end of the week. I have a big lunch at Khichdi Samrat, a dive in Madhavbagh. They serve

By Suketu Mehta

/ 31 May 2005

Pleasure: Vadapav Eaters City

Whose city is Bombay? Bombay is the vadapav eaters city, Mama of the Rajan company had said to me. It is the lunch of the chawl dwellers, the cart pullers,

By Suketu Mehta

/ 24 May 2005

All great cities are schizophrenic, said Victor Hugo. Bombay has multiple-personality disorder. During the riots, the printing presses were running overtime. They were printing visiting cards, two sets for each

By Suketu Mehta

/ 19 May 2005

The Country of the No

This extract is from one of seven books shortlisted for the 2005 Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. The winner will be announced on 15 October, and over the

By Suketu Mehta

/ 12 May 2005

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Passages: a Self in the Crowd

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The Country of the No

Pleasure: Vadapav Eaters City