In Bombay/Mumbai:
Immersions, Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves a narrative around
the ever-pulsating and restless metropolis—India’s financial capital,
accompanied by Christopher Taylor’s fascinating photographs that complements
the text. She provides the readers a fresh experience of the city; with its
pungent edginess, its geography, abundant human stories, evidence of ruin
alongside new rooting, and its throbbing and often decomposed corporeality. The
book maps several rhythms of time as the author and photographer travel round
the city and is a cross genre book—a memoir, travelogue, investigation, poetic
expositions—all harmoniously blended to perfection. During their tour of the
city, dreamt and desired by millions, the author and her friend visited
relatively unexplored precincts, high-rises and heritage villages. They
encountered vivid and poignant stories on the streets and in little known
trades, the city’s history and the illusory yet surreal world of Bollywood.