bombay
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A British official built a solar engine in Bombay in the 1870s – but his bosses were unconvinced
Sebastian Egholm Lund, The Conversation
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From the memoir: Mathematician and writer Manil Suri on his childhood in a crumbling Bombay flat
Manil Suri
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What makes Rohinton Mistry’s fiction so cherished? His moral seriousness and technical mastery
Nirav Mehta
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‘The Only City’: This evocative anthology is a window into the polymorphous megapolis of Bombay
Sharmistha Jha
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Business history: How Vaman Shridhar Apte, aka Tatysaheb, founded the Phaltan Sugar Works in 1930s
Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
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‘The Unbroken Coast’ by Nalini Jones: A Bandra novel about family, friendship, and shared history
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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Gillian Tindall (1938-2025): A Bombay biographer who opened the city’s eyes to its own stories
Murali Ranganathan
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Indian cricket history: How the Bombay team became an indomitable force in the Ranji Trophy
Devendra Prabhudesai
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Panic and fear: How Bombay experienced the Great Uprising of 1857
Dinyar Patel
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‘The Silversmith’s Puzzle’: An action-packed, colourful murder mystery set in 19th-century Bombay
Anu Kumar
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‘Inside the Mirror’: A coming-of-age novel set in the 1950s gets women’s desire for true freedom
Shivani Patel
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‘A Love Song for Jude’: Flash fiction by writer Iffat Nawaz
Iffat Nawaz
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For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse
Prashant Kidambi
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Fiction: Abandoned by everyone she has ever known, Monica rediscovers her first love, photography
Vrushali Samant
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Podcast: In the life and times of Victor Sassoon, an uncanny resemblance to today’s world in flux
Dinyar Patel
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A restaurant menu from 1935 is a reminder of how much Bombay has changed
Mustansir Dalvi
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‘Our Bones in Your Throat’: A savage campus novel that takes the culture of bullying head-on
Saloni Sharma
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From the biography: How Bombay’s diverse architectural landscape inspired architect Charles Correa
Mustansir Dalvi
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Fiction: A friend’s murder draws Karan into Mumbai’s world of sex, crime and politics
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
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A glimpse of India’s chess culture in 1850s books: Illustrations, Marathi verse and some history
Murali Ranganathan