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…

- Suketu Mehta

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…

- Suketu Mehta

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 …

- Suketu Mehta

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 …

- Suketu Mehta

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

- Suketu Mehta

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…

- Suketu Mehta

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…

- Suketu Mehta

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

- Suketu Mehta

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…

- Suketu Mehta