In this work, Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves a narrative around the ever-pulsating and restless metropolis of Bombay/Mumbai - India's financial capital, accompanied by Christopher Taylor's fascinating photographs that complements the text. She provides the readers a fresh experience of the city; with its pungent edginess, its geography, abundant human stories, evidence of ruin alongside new rooting, and its throbbing and often decomposed corporeality.