Re-reading Cities and Communities

People Called Mumbai – Children’s Edition

(2017)

By Fun Ok Please
Written by: Vinitha Ramchandani
Illustrations by: Happy Fish

978-93-81593-26-4

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This city

My city

Is also your city.

It has stories and loris and magic and tears

Of dreamers and doers; of people with fear

Of vada pav and brun maska and 

Bhel puri in the bylanes.

Of potters and paan wallas and 

Policewallas who reign

Of its Kolis and tolis and Bollywood champagne,

This is a story city.

Twenty stories. Twenty lives. Twenty times real. Meet this Mumbai.

This

People Called Mumbai