Talk
City of Dreams: Searching for Bombay in Mumbai
31 Mar 2022
Regular hours
- Thu, 31 Mar
- 18:00 – 19:30
Timezone: Asia/Calcutta
Free admission
Online
- Language: English
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Royal Opera House, Mumbai, Pictor Publishing and Avid Learning will host the unveiling of two striking new books on Mumbai, Bombay Unimagined by Robert Stephens and The Opium of Time by Sunhil Sippy, at a live event at Royal Opera House, Mumbai on 31st March 2022.
About
How do you define Bombay? By the spray of tony art deco on Marine Drive or the tumbledown charm of Irani cafes? By scruffy taxis lining a diamond district, or its never say die spirit? Or do you define it as a stolen nugget – a bindass Bombay now rarely seen in a maximum Mumbai?
No matter which way you look at it, Bombay… Mumbai… is a city to savour. A city that reveals itself to anyone who cares to explore it. This evening we meet two explorers, seduced to look past their first impressions. One captured life on the streets of Mumbai uncovering a hidden city. While the other recreated an unrealised Bombay, from ideas that never saw the light of the day.
Join the two imaginators as they show you their Bombay/Mumbai, once a collection of small islands separated by swamps that is today a city of dreams to twoforeigners adamant about calling it home.
