Suketu Mehta (born 1963) 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.
Born: 1963
Categories: Living people, Journalists, Indians, Biographers, Americans, Short story writers
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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.
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.