Quotes of: Mumbai Keyword

Food wasn’t one of the amenities at Cooper, the five-hundred-bed hospital on which millions of poor people depended. Nor was medicine. “Out of stock today” was the nurses’ official explanation. Plundered and resold out of supply cabinets was ...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety minutes at night. Shiv Sena men had appropriated the taps, charging usage fees to their neighbors. These water-brokers were resented, but not as muc...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

Vikas Swarup

Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn’t keep track of a child’s years when you were fighting daily...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

Nita Ambani

Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

Madhuri Dixit

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

Zubin Mehta

In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional....

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one t...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

A few weeks ago, Abdul had seen a boy’s hand cut clean off when he was putting plastic into one of the shredders. The boy’s eyes had filled with tears but he hadn’t screamed. Instead he’d stood there with his blood-spurting stump, his ability...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

Gautam Adani

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

Shahrukh Khan

I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

Kangna Ranaut

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

Ashwin Sanghi

With 'Mumbai Calling,' I was surprised it was ITV that went for it because it didn't traditionally seem like the kind of programme they would make.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

Julian Sands

I grew up in Delhi, where there are no Parsis. But once I came to Mumbai, I realised how quirky Parsis are.

Cyrus Broacha

Actually, my real name is not Mona. It's Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai.

Mona Singh

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

Vladimir Putin

Sachin has been an integral part of Mumbai Indians and a source of inspiration for the team ever since the inception.

Nita Ambani

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

Deepika Padukone