http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/the-fabulous-myths-tales-and-histories-of-mumbai
Good review of yet another book on Mumbai: "In that Mumbai Fables challenges the very idea of historical inevitability, it leaves us with a history of possibilities etched by Prakash that may in some form emerge again—for example, the radical intellectual culture of the city, eventually fractured by Partition, with its broad and deep political and social engagements. In Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Marco Polo describes all the cities he has visited to the emperor Kublai Khan. In each of these cities, Polo finds something of his beloved Venice. Prakash's Mumbai Fables tell us of one city, Mumbai, and of all the fabled cities that live within. The book magnificently achieves Prakash's stated ambition of rendering Mumbai legible 'as society'—not a final statement but a contested, living record of the failures and aspirations, the exhaustions and social energies of Mumbai."
Good review of yet another book on Mumbai: "In that Mumbai Fables challenges the very idea of historical inevitability, it leaves us with a history of possibilities etched by Prakash that may in some form emerge again—for example, the radical intellectual culture of the city, eventually fractured by Partition, with its broad and deep political and social engagements. In Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Marco Polo describes all the cities he has visited to the emperor Kublai Khan. In each of these cities, Polo finds something of his beloved Venice. Prakash's Mumbai Fables tell us of one city, Mumbai, and of all the fabled cities that live within. The book magnificently achieves Prakash's stated ambition of rendering Mumbai legible 'as society'—not a final statement but a contested, living record of the failures and aspirations, the exhaustions and social energies of Mumbai."
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