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36 Hours in Mumbai

Posted By arZan On June 21, 2008 @ 9:36 pm In City Life | Comments Disabled

The NYTimes has a long running feature called “36 Hours In….” where they feature different cities every week.

This week its our very own Mumbai

IT’S the Jazz Age again in Mumbai [1]. The populous metropolis is bursting with stock-market money, a shimmering art [2] scene has a growing global presence, and young people are exploiting their newfound freedoms in dim bars until the wee hours. Indeed, in the city’s more rarefied circles, Champagne is sipped every night and everyone knows everyone, darling. But large swaths of Mumbai, the former Bombay, remain immune to the homogeneity of global glamour.

36hoursmumbainyt.jpg [3]

Continue reading here [4].


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[1] Mumbai: http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/asia/india/mumbai/overview.html?inline=nyt-geo

[2] art: http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/art/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier

[3] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/mumbai/files/2008/06/36hoursmumbainyt.jpg

[4] here: http://events.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/travel/22hours.html

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