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1. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Sumana Mukherjee

   A love letter to Mumbai | Review of Meher Mirza’s Sea, Salt & Spice (opens the original)

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   Few Indian cities have as many books exploring, explaining, dissecting, and mythologising its multiple dimensions as does Mumbai. Be it in cinema or fiction, poetry or essays, narrative non-fiction or long-form journalism, there is scarcely a form of artistic expression that has not been pressed into service for the city. Brave, then, must be the soul who comes forth in 2026 with a new book on Mumbai. Brave, or just very much in love. Meher Mirza calls Sea, Salt and Spice ‘A History of Mumba

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2. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Sumana Mukherjee

   Review of Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling (opens the original)

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   In November 2019, in London, among the most surveilled cities in the world, a security camera captured a young man in a luxury high-rise on the banks of the Thames. It watched as he stepped out into the balcony in the middle of the night, walked from end to end before returning to the centre, and then pitched himself over, into nothingness, into the river. It was a matter of minutes, possibly seconds. But what led to those seconds? And what followed after? In the hands of seven different novelis

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