Complex problems , simple explanations.... from "Maximum City"

It's a brilliant book. If one wants to understand Bombay...Mumbai, this is the best source. Few interesting conversations from the book:


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“How can a man kill ?” I ask Amol. “How can he bring himself to do it?”


“You are a writer. After drinking you will say to yourself, now I must write a story. If you are a dancer, after drinking you will feel like dancing. If you are a killer, after drinking you will think, Now I must kill somebody.”


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I ask them why there is more unity, more fellow feeling, in the chawl.
Common toilets, explains Sunil.


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“What is a gentleman?” Mickey wonders.
“A gentleman is one who kills his heart’s every desire, who doesn’t have guts”, says Satish.