Category: Mumbai

Mumbai is India’s maximum city — a metropolis of seventeen million people, Bollywood studios, heritage Gothic buildings, fishing villages surviving between glass towers, the world’s most expensive private residence and the world’s largest slum, dhaba breakfasts and Michelin-starred dinners, and the Arabian Sea on three sides keeping it honest. Come for the obvious: Marine Drive at dusk, the Gateway of India, the caves of Elephanta. Stay for the secret: the heritage villages of Khotachiwadi and Matharpacady, the night-time food culture of Mohammed Ali Road, and the particular, inexhaustible energy of a city that never quite finishes becoming itself.