Mumbai - Post Report Question and Answers
Do you recommend any books or movies about this city/country for those who are interested in learning more?
Books: Shantaram, India in the 21st Century, Maximum City, Movies: Gully Boy, Slumdog Millionaire. - Nov 2020
There are loads out there. None in particular I’d recommend, but it’s worth reading up on the culture a bit before coming. - Aug 2019
Slumdog Millionaire. Lion (set in Kolkata, but it still paints an accurate picture). - Mar 2019
Maximum city & slum dog billionaire - May 2018
Slumdog Millionaire (it is based on truth, regardless of what anyone tells you). - Jun 2017
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. This is a true story of families in one of Mumbai's large slums, written by an investigative journalist who 'embedded' herself there for several years.
A Son of the Circus (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
. I read this book long before I ever thought I'd even visit India, let alone live here. I re-read it after we'd been here six months or so, and it was sort of amazing what things were now familiar to me. It's just a great novel, too. - Nov 2014
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,
Shantaram: A Novel
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The White Tiger: A Novel
- Mar 2014
- Feb 2014
- Feb 2014
, - Aug 2013
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (2003) Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta (2004) Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (2012) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) Haroun and a Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (1990) Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl A blog called Mumbai Boss for lots of things to do in and around Mumbai. Restaurant review, etc. - May 2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta (but wait until you've been in Mumbai a while before reading).The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone: Reflections on India - the Emerging 21st-Century Power
by Shashi Tharoor. - Feb 2013
Shantaram, Maximum City, India after Gandhi. - Dec 2010
Maximum City. - Aug 2008
Midnights Children (Rushdie); A Fine Balance (Mistry); Shantaram. - Aug 2008