Mumbai Fables. In this remarkable cultural history of one of the world's most important urban centers, Gyan Prakash unearths the stories behind its fabulous history, viewing Mumbai through its turning points and kaleidoscopic ideas, comic book heroes, and DOWNLOAD NOW». Author: Gyan Prakash. Mumbai Fables is an engaging narrative, and offers a different way for urban historians to write the biography of a city. But it will have more to offer for those familiar with the city, for whom the gleam of recognition will be a benefit. Berlin Review of Books - Katrina Gulliver. Gyan Prakash's Mumbai Fables is a thing of beauty. Trawling the archives as flâneur and walking the city's past as historian, Prakash Price: $ · Mumbai Fables explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. In this remarkable cultural history of one of the world’s most important urban centers, Gyan Prakash unearths the stories behind its fabulous history, viewing Mumbai through its turning points and kaleidoscopic ideas, comic .
Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash | Photo Credit: scanned in chennai_grrgr For the outsider, Mumbai Fables holds a wealth of information; for the true-blue Mumbaiite, it merely states the obvious. Gyan Prakash's book is meant as a challenge to more sophisticated misunderstandings than these, but it is equally valuable as an introduction to many of the issues facing modern India, through the story (or rather stories) of its most glamorous city. Mumbai Fables points to one good place to start. Yeh hai Mumbai meri jaan. "Gyan Prakash's Mumbai Fables is a thing of beauty. Trawling the archives as flâneur and walking the city's past as historian, Prakash reads the city as palimpsest. He pays homage to the seductive power of myths about Mumbai and its earlier avatar Bombay--the city of free enterprise, the efficient city, the cosmopolitan city, the liberal city.
Historian Gyan Prakash’s Mumbai Fables is a narrative of the lived history of Mumbai as seen through the eyes of the writers, artists, planners, lawyers and trade unionists who have engaged with its hidden forces. Most people who live in Mumbai feel a peculiar sort of love for it. In Mumbai Fables, Gyan Prakash has written a lyrical yet incisive account of the city that has beckoned to him over the course of his life. The call of the city is not incidental to the arguments and organization of the book. Indeed, Prakash seeks to understand how and why the city has emerged as an object of desire and yearning. Mumbai chronicler Gyan Prakash articulated it in Mumbai Fables. 'Cities live in our imagination,' he wrote while explaining the 'uninhibited and audacious' spirit of the city that was a 'jigsaw puzzle of distinct neighbourhoods. DOWNLOAD NOW» Author: Chandrima Pal. Publisher: HarperCollins. ISBN: Category: Social Science. Page: View:
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