...When people move, everyone benefits. The rich countries benefit. And the migrants themselves benefit. And the countries that they move from benefi… - Maximum City

At the age of fourteen I had experienced a miracle. I turned on a tap, and clean water came gushing out.

A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.

...I’m always shocked by the lack of historical awareness on the part of the average American. Many of the people who have come here did so to forget history, to turn their backs on history.