“‘Bombay is a bird of gold.’ A man living in a slum, without water, without toilets, was telling me why he came here, why people continue to come here. In the Bayview Bar of the Oberoi Hotel you can order a bottle of Dom Perignon for one and a half times the average annual income, this in a city where forty percent of the houses lack safe drinking water......It is a maximum city.”
Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

This book describes Mumbai City in terms of its richest and poorest. Both classes live together despite the giant gaps in their lifestyles. The writer has come back to India 15-20 years after staying in the US. And he witnesses the changes that the country has gone through in the years of his absence. This is a compact non-fictional tale that travels through the dance bars of Mumbai and the life of the dancers and moves on to the poor people living on the railway tracks. It speaks out the shocking story of an assassin who kills for mere fifty Rupees.