Featured Quote: V. S. Naipaul

"Bombay continued to define itself: Bombay flats on either side of the road now, concrete buildings mildewed at their upper levels by the Bombay weather, excessive sun, excessive rain, excessive heat; grimy at the lower levels, as if from the crowds at pavement level, and as if that human grime was working its way up, tide-mark by tide-mark, to meet the mildew."

V. S. Naipaul, from India: A Million Mutinies Now, Vintage 1991.

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Credits: Image of Bombay Building from Carol Mitchell.