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Since the East India Company merged seven islands into Bombay (now Mumbai), change has been constant-but now it is used as a weapon for displacement, disguised as development. Slums are erased overnight to make way for luxury towers priced in tens of crores. The working class is pushed to the margins-literally-and into distant housing projects with no infrastructure, transport or sanitation. Entire communities are uprooted while a new Mumbai is built for the privileged few, behind closed gates, inside glass walls.

Sidharth Bhatia's Mumbai: A Million Islands is a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation. What is vanishing is not just space, but memory, history and the very fabric of a living city. Mumbai's famed spirit of survival is being tested like never before. Where the original seven islands had symbolized a synergy, today they're multiplying as fractures-social, spatial and economic-splitting the city into a million islands, each more isolated than the other.

 

Review

'A tender love letter to a disappearing city, written with the intimacy of someone who wants its stories told.' - James Crabtree


'As we watch luxury apartments being built around us, millions of citizens live without basic amenities. And many of them have been shifted to the peripheries of the city, making them further invisible. Sidharth Bhatia's timely book brings them and their lives into the public eye.' - Shabana Azmi

'This kaleidoscopic reading and documentation of both the immediate past as well as the forces today that are shaping the city is a critical piece of work for future historians.' - Rahul Mehrotra

About the Author

Sidharth Bhatia is a Mumbai-born journalist and writer. He has been in the media, print and electronic, for over four decades. He is a founding editor of The Wire. Earlier, Sidharth was of the original team that launched the Mumbai-based English daily DNA. He has written three books—Cinema Modern: The Navketan Story (2011), Amar Akbar Anthony: Masala, Madness, Manmohan Desai (2013) and India Psychedelic: The Story of a Rocking Generation (2014). Mumbai: A Million Islands (2025) is his fourth book. He tweets at @bombaywallah.

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  • ISBN: 9789369893416
  • Author: Sidharth Bhatia
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • Pages: 320
  • Format: Paperback
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Since the East India Company merged seven islands into Bombay (now Mumbai), change has been constant-but now it is used as a weapon for displacement, disguised as development. Slums are erased overnight to make way for luxury towers priced in tens of crores. The working class is pushed to the margins-literally-and into distant housing projects with no infrastructure, transport or sanitation. Entire communities are uprooted while a new Mumbai is built for the privileged few, behind closed gates, inside glass walls.

Sidharth Bhatia's Mumbai: A Million Islands is a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation. What is vanishing is not just space, but memory, history and the very fabric of a living city. Mumbai's famed spirit of survival is being tested like never before. Where the original seven islands had symbolized a synergy, today they're multiplying as fractures-social, spatial and economic-splitting the city into a million islands, each more isolated than the other.

 

Review

'A tender love letter to a disappearing city, written with the intimacy of someone who wants its stories told.' - James Crabtree


'As we watch luxury apartments being built around us, millions of citizens live without basic amenities. And many of them have been shifted to the peripheries of the city, making them further invisible. Sidharth Bhatia's timely book brings them and their lives into the public eye.' - Shabana Azmi

'This kaleidoscopic reading and documentation of both the immediate past as well as the forces today that are shaping the city is a critical piece of work for future historians.' - Rahul Mehrotra

About the Author

Sidharth Bhatia is a Mumbai-born journalist and writer. He has been in the media, print and electronic, for over four decades. He is a founding editor of The Wire. Earlier, Sidharth was of the original team that launched the Mumbai-based English daily DNA. He has written three books—Cinema Modern: The Navketan Story (2011), Amar Akbar Anthony: Masala, Madness, Manmohan Desai (2013) and India Psychedelic: The Story of a Rocking Generation (2014). Mumbai: A Million Islands (2025) is his fourth book. He tweets at @bombaywallah.

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