![]() Mehta, like Joseph Mitchell, is a silent interviewer, rarely stepping within quotation marks. ![]() Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found -a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2005-has all the 3-D vividness of a Google Street View shot and the headlong arc of a sleek, journalistic, first-person account. The result is perhaps the greatest nonfiction book written about India. Once he was almost shot at by two gangsters in a hotel room. He got into a codependent (but nonsexual) relationship with a troubled bar girl. Many of these interviews turned into friendships: He co-wrote a script for the blockbuster Mission Kashmir. But to set out to interview the city-as Suketu Mehta did for his book Maximum City -is its own kind of hubris.įor two years, Mehta made a daily ritual of touring the megopolis and recording the words of gangsters, policemen, bar girls, slumdwellers, and Bollywood directors on his beloved laptop. ![]() One could safely brick a house with recent Bombay tomes. ![]() ![]() Writing a novel “about” Bombay is undeniably a preposterous project. ![]()
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