Salman Rushdie’s MumbaiThough Salman Rushdie lived most of his life in London and New York, the author has said he loves Mumbai, the city of his birth, more than any other. It’s a city that assaults the senses – from the clamour of the ramshackle (or what Rushdie would call “rutputty”) restaurants in Churchgate to the morning hurly-burly around the British-built Gateway of India; from the thwack of leather on a cricket bat in Shivaji Park to the gaggle of garishly painted fishing boats bobbing on the bay.The Mumbai that features in Rushdie’s books The Moor’s Last Sigh and Midnight’s Children is a microcosm of post-colonial India – a city ravaged by power-hungry politicians, yet somehow resolving a morass of cultural, social and religious conflict through bustle and Brownian motion. Today, comprising populations of Hindus and Muslims, Jains and Catholics, Sikhs and Saddhus, Mumbai is a place where India meets itself, remembers to forget the Raj and looks across the Arabian Sea to new money and Dubai. (BBC)ANN.Az