Bombay
-
A restaurant menu from 1935 is a reminder of how much Bombay has changed
Mustansir Dalvi
-
‘Our Bones in Your Throat’: A savage campus novel that takes the culture of bullying head-on
Saloni Sharma
-
From the biography: How Bombay’s diverse architectural landscape inspired architect Charles Correa
Mustansir Dalvi
-
Fiction: A friend’s murder draws Karan into Mumbai’s world of sex, crime and politics
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
-
A glimpse of India’s chess culture in 1850s books: Illustrations, Marathi verse and some history
Murali Ranganathan
-
For children: In 1948, Amil and his family are trying to rebuild their lives in Bombay in free India
Veera Hiranandani
-
A history on foot: How Mumbai’s cosmopolitan past shaped Indian nationalism
Aparna Kapadia
-
‘Jaan-e-Mumbai’: The slim Persian book that came to be the first urban biography of the city
Murali Ranganathan
-
Sunday book pick: A Jewish refugee in Bombay in Anita Desai’s novel ‘Baumgartner’s Bombay’
Sayari Debnath
-
A city of many dreams: How Patrick Geddes brought a human touch to urban planning in India
Indra Munshi
-
Fiction: In her forties and divorced, Maya is enjoying a halcyon spell in Bombay, the city she loves
Rohit Manchanda
-
Fiction: 1896. Mark Twain is in Bombay. But he has vanished from his hotel room in the dead of night
Anuradha Kumar
-
How an early version of UK’s national flag helped Bombay merchants grow their business
Richard Scott Morel
-
In pictures: The story of India’s classic railway buildings
Vinoo N Mathur
-
‘The Secret of More’: Tejaswini Apte-Rahm’s debut novel delivers more than it promises
Shubhangi Tiwari
-
Language, power and politics: The shifts from 1960-’90 that came to make and unmake Mumbai
Sujata Patel D Parthasarathy George Jose
-
From pamphlets to publishing: Remembering the remarkable career of Samuel ‘Sammy’ Israel
Rivka Israel
-
An 18th-century letter to Bombay shows what it was like to be in service of the East India Company
Peter Good
-
In searching for my ancestor Miguel of Mazagon, I found his role in a key Anglo-Portuguese deal
Megan deSouza Denis Rodrigues
-
Why the Portuguese administrators in India tried to stop the handover of Bombay to the British
Luis Dias