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1. 1. Maximum City

   Bombay Lost and Found

   

   This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), one of the world's largest and most complex cities. The author weaves together personal experiences, interviews and observations to paint a vivid picture of the city's diverse inhabitants and their daily lives. The narrative delves into the city’s underworld, its entertainment industry, its religious tensions, and its political landscape, providing an in-depth look at the dichotomies of wealth and poverty, modernity and tradition, and order and chaos that define Mumbai.

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2. 2. This Land Is Our Land

   An Immigrant's Manifesto

   

   A passionate, reportorial manifesto that blends personal memoir, historical analysis, and on-the-ground reporting to argue that migrants are central to the nation’s social and economic fabric; it exposes the human costs of restrictive policies and xenophobic politics, highlights immigrants’ contributions to cities, labor markets, and culture, and makes both moral and pragmatic cases for humane reforms—such as pathways to citizenship, stronger worker protections, and fairer asylum processes—while warning that nationalism and border fearfulness undermine democratic ideals in an interconnected world.

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