bombay

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....

While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.

In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It__ a gentleman__ game. Don__ you ever forget that.

She removed the shining black disk from its sleeve, holding it by the edges. After she placed it on the turntable and set the arm into motion, she adjusted the volume on the amplifier, flooding the room with sound. She closed her eyes and began to sway to the music. She could almost feel Clive__ arms guiding her, as he had done so many times over the course of their lives tog

As they left the pier and walked into the park, Chahda looked around appreciatively. "Nice place, this. Capital of New Caledonia. Big island, has 8,548 square mile, also has 53,245 peoples. Eleven thousand in Noumea. That is what says the Worrold Alm-in-ack."Rick and Scotty laughed. It was like old times to hear Chahda quoting from The World Almanac. A Bombay beggar boy, he had educated himself with only the Almanac for his textbook, and he had laboriously memorized everything in it.

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

Bombay, you will be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is understood in the West. Other Indian metropolises like Calcutta, Madras and Delhi are like oversized villages. It is true that Bombay has many more high-rise buildings than any other Indian city: when you approach it by the sea it looks like a miniature New York. It has other things to justify its city status: it is congested, it has traffic jams at all hours of the day, it is highly polluted and many parts of it stink.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

This is not India. There are people here from every part of India, but Bombay isn't India. Bombay is an own-world, a world in itself. The real India is out there.

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we__e loved them, left them, or fought them.

A teenage boy with a Mohawk sat across from me, sneering. I__ seen that look before. Why was it a problem to knit in public?__y grandma knits.__ ignored him.__o what are you making, Grandma?_ Mohawk__ voice was ugly.I arched my eyebrow. __ cashmere cock ring. Your grandma ever knit one of those?__he kid__ eyes grew wide, and he suddenly became very interested in a four-year-old issue of Teen Vogue.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

He looked at me with a smile that I still remember and ran a finger along his impeccably trimmed mustache. __ricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It__ a gentleman__ game. Don__ you ever forget that.