Book: "Mumbai Fables"; Author: Gyan Prakash; Publisher: Harper Collins-India; Pages: 352; Price: Rs. 425 As described in an earlier work, Mumbai comes across as maximum city in "Mumbai Fables" too, a new release that traces the evolution of India's commercial hub from a trading port and a bastion of Parsis to an icon of India's new economic muscle.
Writer Gyan Prakash, an urban historian, documents the city's tumultuous years of unbridled growth, society gossip, scandals, Bollywood, politics, annual deluge, terror attacks and economic boom.