Mumbai
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Come Fly with me to Far Bombay
Writing from Bombay, X.T.M ranges across commentariat debates, praises Sher Shah Suri over the Mughals, comments on Hindutva and liberal intelligentsia, argues renaming Indian cities cost brand value, and sees…
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Partition’s Impact on India’s Regional Quadrants
Argues that Partition reshaped five regional quadrants of undivided India. It fragmented Punjab and the Indo-Gangetic heartland, diminished Bengal by splitting Kolkata from Dhaka, cut Bombay off from Karachi, and…
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Bombay – the Billionaire’s playground
X.T.M muses that Sindhis include many millionaires but fewer billionaires, and that Bombay’s overlapping circle of politicians, cricketers, Bollywood and industrial families is creating an elite unlike any other, with…
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(Tata) Car Of The Year (COTY)
A light note on a Jaguar sports car winning a car award, praised as a Tata product, with background on Bombay House, the Tata Group’s Mumbai headquarters.
