Mumbai (1-3)

Mumbai is big. It’s full of dreamers and hard-labourers, starlets and gangsters, stray dogs and exotic birds, artists and servants and fisherfolk and crorepatis (millionaires) and lots and lots of other people. It has the most prolific film industry, some of Asia’s biggest slums (and the world’s most expensive home) and the largest tropical forest in an urban zone. It’s India’s financial powerhouse, fashion epicentre and a pulse point of religious tension. It’s evolved its own language, Bambaiyya Hindi, which is a mix of...everything.Read more