“…yes, it was my Bombay, but also not-mine.”

SALEEM returns to the city of his birth, Bombay: the abode of his deepest nostalgia. But by the early 1970s, the city had changed.

Saleem, the main character in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, cannot find the reading place with its stacks of Superman comics. And over on the far hill, the fancy bougainvillea-wreathed houses looking out over the sea have gone. So has the circus ring of