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Featuring brand-new tales by: Annie Zaidi, R. Raj Rao, Abbas Tyrewala, Avtar Singh, Ahmed Bunglowala, Smita Harish Jain, Sonia Faleiro, Altaf Tyrewala, Namita Devidayal, Jerry Pinto, Kalpish Ratna, Riaz Mulla, Paromita Vohra, and Devashish Makhija. Bombay's communal riots of 1992 - in which Hindus were alleged to be the primary perpetrators - were followed by retaliatory bomb blasts in 1993, masterminded by the Muslim-dominated underworld. Over a thousand residents lost their lives in these internecine rounds of assault and thousands more became refugees in their own city. In a matter of weeks, Bombay ceased to be the cosmopolitan, wholesome, and middle-class bastion it turned out for decades. When the city was renamed Mumbai in 1995, it only formalized the common understanding that the Bombay everyone understood and remembered had been lost permanently. Today Mumbai is like some other Asian city on the rise, with gigantic structure cranes winding atop upcoming skyscrapers and malls. It continues to have the highest GDP among Indian metropolitan areas and one of the most expensive real estate markets on the globe. Mukesh Ambani, the world's fourth-richest man, calling Mumbai home. As do seventeen million other people, for a majority of whom life remains an excellent balance, to acquire Rohinton Mistry's explanation, between success and penury, between lawfulness and maverick restlessness, and often between life and fatality. Right-wing violence, faltering electricity and drinking water equipment, overcrowding, and the ever-looming threat of terrorist episodes - they are a few of the gruesome ground realities that Mumbai's midsection and working classes must offer with every day, while the city's super-rich, like these Ambani, zip from roofing to roofing in their private choppers. Forgotten by its wealthy, mistreated by its politicians and administrators, Mumbai continues to thrive primarily because of the helpless resilience of its hardworking, upright residents.
