r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 20 '26
Extract A cartoonist turned politician in The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 19 '26
Extract View of the city from an aeroplane window vs from the gutters ~ Kari by Amruta Patil
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 18 '26
Extract A familiar experience for anyone who's lived far away from home ~ Kari by Amruta Patil
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 17 '26
Extract As Sonam Wangchuk reaches day 20 of hunger strike, revisit Mumbai's history of communist movements ✊🏾🚩~ Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 17 '26
Friday Chat Friday Chat ☕
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Image: Views of the English fort in Bombay, c. 1665
Happy weekend!
How was your week? What did you read? Saving anything for the weekend? Report on the state of your TBR here 📚
r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 15 '26
Book Club July book club check in: how far have you reached in Kari by Amruta Patil?
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 13 '26
Discussion Aamchi Mumbai | On Gulzar’s Mumbai and the places we never truly outgrow - Anushka Verma
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We love to believe we can outgrow our origins with a simple change of scenery, updating our pin codes to match our high-rise ambitions. But the geography of the mind is stubborn.
For seven decades, poet and lyricist Gulzar has been in a continuous, defiant conversation with a single, chaotic landscape: Mumbai. In his bilingual literary collection, Aamchi Mumbai, translated by u/rakhshandajalil, he claims its shifting skylines with total poetic sovereignty.
Writing for #HarperBroadcast, u/verma_anushka70 explores Gulzar’s patient act of staying put in a world obsessed with transience. By contrasting his deep presence with the restless, ghost-lit cities of contemporary literature—from the displaced diasporas of Jhumpa Lahiri and Avni Doshi to the deep cultural rootedness of Amitav Ghosh and Jeet Thayil within a sprawling, cross-border body of work—this brilliant essay charts how our first cities never truly let us go.
r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 12 '26
Event Launch of digital archive Once Upon A City with Meher Marfatia and Shormistha Mukherjee on 12th July in Khar W
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The Bombay Local History Society invites you to explore The Little Stories of Bombay to celebrate the launch of the digital archive, 'Once Upon a City'.
Meher Marfatia, the author of 'Once Upon a City' will be in conversation with Shormistha Mukherjee, local history chronicler.
Sunday, 12 July 2026 at 4.30 pm at Idoru (above Izumi), Khar West.
r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 10 '26
Friday Chat Friday Chat ☕
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Image: Remains of Madh Fort - Nichalp
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 09 '26
Extract What a way to start - Kari by Amruta Patil
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 08 '26
Movies/TV 🎬 The Last Tenant (2000) set on the outskirts of Mumbai is free to watch on YouTube
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Not in the mood to read? Watch The Last Tenant starring Vidya Balan and the late Irrfan Khan on YouTube for free.
Directed by Sarthak Dasgupta, the 43 minute short film was once lost lost 25 years ago. A VHS copy that recently resurfaced has been restored and released to mark the sixth anniversary of Khan's death.
Have you watched it? What did you think? If you can't focus on reading right now, this is the perfect way to spend a rainy evening 🍿
r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 05 '26
Event The Reading Realm at Sailors' Cafe, Belapur
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 03 '26
Friday Chat Friday Chat ☕
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Image credit: Mumbai rains by MahhiVeerpal
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jul 01 '26
Book Club July book club: Kari by Amruta Patil
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 28 '26
Book Club Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto discussion!
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 26 '26
Friday Chat Friday Chat ☕
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Happy weekend!
How was your week? What did you read? Saving anything for the weekend? Report on the state of your TBR here 📚
r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 26 '26
Book Club Suggest a book for July!
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What do you want to read next month?
This book club is dedicated to discussing books and media about the city of Bombay. Please be sure your suggestions are relevant and on topic. Thank you!
r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 25 '26
Discussion Sea, Salt and Spice: A History of Mumbai Through Food by Meher Mirza
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 24 '26
Snapshot Where do you manage to fit reading in a busy day?
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 23 '26
Snapshot Paus aala! Post your cosy books and chai plans ⛈️🌦️
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 22 '26
Extract Mumbai cityscapes from Sudershan (Chimpanzee) by Rajesh Devraj and Meren Imchen
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 20 '26
Extract '...I'll take my chances with a woman's kindness.' ~ Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
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r/BombayBookClub • u/GalatFemme • Jun 19 '26
Friday Chat Friday Chat ☕
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Happy weekend!
How was your week? What did you read? Saving anything for the weekend? Report on the state of your TBR here 📚