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mumbai - Mumbai (Bombay), India Mumbai (Bombay), India BOMBAY OR MUMBAI is cluster of seven islands: Bombay Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Worli, and Old Woman's Island (also known as Little Colaba Mumbai was presented to King Charles II in...

With the rise of Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi culminating in this week's election, Pankaj Mishra asks if the world's largest democracy is entering its most sinister period since independence In A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth writes with affection of...

By Ken Auletta   The square that borders the Dadar Railway Station is the largest of sixty-five newspaper-delivery depots in Mumbai. At 4 A.M., forty trucks and vans packed with newspapers and magazines have parked and slid open their back doors...

Published by IndiaFacts The man whom India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru prophesied to become the Prime Minister of India one day, the man whom the then PM Manmohan Singh called the “Bhishma Pitamah of Indian Politics,” the man who led an...

Just the other day, it seemed as if India could hardly put a foot wrong. Annual economic growth averaged above eight percent between 2003 and ’08, and the country was one of the world’s few major economies to escape more or less unscathed from the global...