The great thing about Bombay is its open, generous heart. I hope - I know - that this spirit will endure. Bombay will adjust..

Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the country pick Bombay. Other Indian ci….

It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am ….

I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing..

Commuter trains are the easiest target for terrorists, as we have seen in Madrid, London, and now Bombay. But it is difficult for a Westerner to comp….

If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair. You can run up to the packed compa….

In the looking, I found the cities within me..

Indian Muslims have stayed very far away from Al Qaeda and the like; they have voted with their feet and stayed in the country, rather than going to ….

There have always been elements in the Pakistani state that have been hostile to India; which is not to say that the Pakistani government as a whole ….

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came….

And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouc….

While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand Institute in Washington DC. This woul….

A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless….

The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city. And today, they became….