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- W222874811 abstract "is left now except to talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs, says Mr. Kapur in Rohinton Mistry's novel Family Matters. Let us sit upon these chairs and tell sad stories of the death of cities, he continues, ripping off Richard II to lament the demise of his beloved Bombay. But in pronouncing Bombay's death, Mr. Kapur also evokes its life as shining city on the sea, a tropical Camelot, golden place where races and religions lived in peace and amity. The death of the city gives birth to an imagined past. Cities often live in our imaginations, their physical and social architecture exercising real power by conjuring up fictions and myths. This is how Bombay entered my life early and artlessly. The Island City lodged itself deep into my childhood consciousness and opened the world around me to the enchantment of its imaginations, inviting many, like myself, to live its fictions and make its pleasures and torments our own. Bombay was an idea, figure of myth and desire. Today, we know something of its magical power from the novels of Mistry and Salman Rushdie. And to my great surprise and delight, the flashy Bombay cinema, now known everywhere as Bollywood, has found receptive audience in the West. With the city suddenly thrust into the worldwide circuit of marketed images, I decided to visit Bombay and examine its mythic history since World War II, especially the years before its ascent into global consciousness. Bombay is not my hometown. I was born more than thousand miles to the east in small town called Hazaribagh in the Bihar province. Educated in Hazaribagh, Patna (Bihar's capital), New Delhi, and the United States, I have lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for the last 18 years. My fascination with Bombay is not that of an immigrant with nostalgia for the hometown left" @default.
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- W222874811 title "The Idea of Bombay: Bollywood epitomized modernity for a boy in a distant province. As an adult, he sees a troubled city" @default.
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