The Only City is an anthology of short stories, curated and edited by Anindita Ghose, featuring eighteen stories about the “maximum city” of Bombay, contributed by writers who share a special relationship with the city.
Bombay is restless and beautiful; it might be a place where dreams come true, it may be cruel and unforgiving, and it is undoubtedly alienating and merciless. However, it always demands more from its inhabitants. Evocative and sublime, each story opens a rare window into the polymorphous megapolis of Bombay.
My Bombay
In Yogesh Maitreya’s “The Sound of Silence”, a young Dalit student arrives in Bombay from a small town to become a writer, only to have his dreams shattered by premium educational institutions governed by caste hierarchies. The glaring caste divisions in the city further isolate him. Dejected, he thinks, “But the problem with losing the map to your dreams is that you can only hope to regain it. And while that happens, you sink deeper into the complexities of desire. It is at this brittle juncture of life that one can feel the arrival of death. It is at this unbearable moment that this distance between life and death becomes the distance between what you once had aspired to be...
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