Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehtais a writer based in New York City. He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Mumbai where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977. He has attended New York University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop...
bombay city public
Bombay is a city in which everything is on broad, public display. Nothing is hidden.
became certain explaining talking
I became the confessor. At a certain point, they weren't even talking to me, they were explaining themselves.
dream country cities
It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.
shapes retrospect events
Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.
cities found
In the looking, I found the cities within me.