CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• CAROLINE HERBERT

POETRY

• BOEY KIM CHENG, Kolkata Raga

• IMTIAZ DHARKER, The Naz Café, Jurassic, Like that only, Number 106,

  Britannia Café

• ROMESH GUNESEKERA, If This Is a City

GRAPHIC FICTION

• MALIK SAJAD, From Father and Son
• SARNATH BANERJEE, Gamanamah

ARTICLES

• MADHUSREE DUTTA, Ghosts and Citizens: Invocations of Mumbai
• G.N. DEVY, Baroda: What a City!
• RASHMI VARMA, Fast-forward-backwardness: An essay on Patna
• MUNEEZA SHAMSIE, When We Were Young: Karachi, 1963-1971
• M.G. VASSANJI, A Letter from Nowhere

• NEELAM SRIVASTAVA, Riots and Realism: The Secularization of Urban Space

  in Fiction by Rudyard Kipling and Vikram Seth

• ALEX PADAMSEE, 'The melting point of granite':

  Nationalist Tourism and the Reconstruction of Colonial Delhi

• AVIJIT GUPTA & RIDDHI SANKAR RAY, The River and the City:

  The Ganga at Kolkata

• RITUPARNA ROY, Postcolonial Cities across Borders:

  Calcutta and Dhaka in Sunil Ganguli's Purba-Paschim

• ANDREW HARRIS, Mumbai’s Underworld:

  Life beneath Transport Infrastructure

• ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR, Hips don't lie:

  Salsa and New Cosmopolitanisms in the Indian City

• GITHA HARIHARAN, Making the City Hers

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS