Making sense of the Mayhem in Mumbai

Dec 3, Cartoonscape, The HinduI was always more of a Dilliwalli (Delhi woman) than a Mumbaikar though Bombay was just an overnight train ride from the city I grew up inâ€"Ahmedabadâ€"and we frequently visited my cousins who lived in that monstrous metropolis. Today all Indian cities seem equally monstrous to me sprawling over the landscape spewing noxious fumes and toxic trash, dwarfing the insect-like citizens who inhabit them.For the last twenty years I’ve lived in Kingston, Jamaica, another monst