Bombay, blockbuster style

This is also a cinema book. Dixit might be a journalist, but he has a flair for drama

BOMBAY AFTER AYODHYA: A City in Flux

Author: Jitendra Dixit

Publisher: Harper Collins India

Pages: 356 

Price: Rs 599

How does one imagine a city? The skyline, perhaps. The streets, landmarks, events and histories, the food, the festivals, and of course, the people. If the city is a living organism, then writing the biography of a city requires the biographer to connect with the cells in its blood vessels.

When I picked up Bombay after Ayodhya it was with the expectation that author-journalist Jitendra Dixit, the current West India editor at ABP News Network, would present a deep dive into the communal tensions that flared up