Author: Manto Saadat Hasan
Place: Noida
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2012
Pages: 274
ISBN: 9788184003055
Subject: Bombay/ Mumbai
Sub-Subject: Bombay
Keyword: Bombay Stories
Classification: 808.30103
Shelf: C5R1
Accession No: B1270
Contents: Introduction khushiya Ten Rupees Barren The Insult Smell Babu Gopi Nath Janaki Peerun Rude Hamid’s babay Mummy Siraj Mozelle Mammad Bhai Appendix Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgements
Abstract: Bombay Stories is a collection of short fiction that vividly portrays the contrasts of Bombay—its glitter and poverty, belonging and alienation, tenderness and cruelty. The stories capture the struggles and emotions of ordinary lives, from survival in Ten Rupees and Barren to the raw feelings in The Insult and Smell. Characters like Babu Gopi Nath, Janaki, Mozelle, and Mammad Bhai reflect the city’s restless spirit, navigating between tradition and modernity. Themes of love, loneliness, humiliation, and resilience weave through the narratives, creating a portrait of a metropolis that is both unforgiving and nurturing, supported by scholarly apparatus.