Over the last five years, Mumbai has been blessed with two significant depictions. In 2004, Suketu Mehta wrote â??Maximum City,â? which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is one of the best books about a great city in recent years. In 2008, â??Slumdog Millionaire,â? a romantic tale of urban poverty and quiz show success, sold millions of tickets and won a bucketful of Oscars. Both capture the energy and diversity of Mumbai, but neither adequately captures the economic energy that makes the city so exciting.
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