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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.

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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.

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

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Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta

Born: 1963 (age 61)

Bio: Suketu Mehta is 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.

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