Drift down the 11 Limited bus route, on a Western artery of the living, breathing, growing, live ecosystem once known as Bombay, now called Mumbai. The illustrator-writer duo of the inimitable Paul Fernandes and Rahul Mehrotra bring alive fleeting moments and frozen memories in images and words.

Fiction and whimsy stir the primordial soup of fact and circumstance swirling around the lives of humanity from Mount St. Mary and Mehboob studios in Bandra to the Southern reaches of Navynagar and the Afghan church in Colaba. The path is lined with sylvan baugs, buzzing stores, historic train stations, iconic movie halls, crowded cafes, and art deco buildings in one never ending thread of many that weave their way through the fabric of this magical city.

Each lovingly illustrated story depicts moments in the lives of those who make Mumbai the home of twenty million hopes and dreams. The dabbawalas, the pani-puri makers, the pav-bhaji sellers, the waiters, the bus drivers, the traffic police, the touts; the shop keepers, the merchants, the Irani restaurant owners; the dreamers, the dream makers, the sellers of dreams, the extras, the stars, the starry eyed; the Bawas, the Babus, the Bhaus, the Bhais, the Bhaiyas…the Bambaiyas.

Get swept into the lives of the characters. Immerse yourself in their hopes and aspirations. Leave reality in the back seat while you soak up the irresistible energy pulsating through the heart of the mega city of dreams.

Enjoy the ride!

An ode to Pavagadh mountain, its myths, and its human and geological history.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

A donkey who strays as far away from work as possible coaxes a hardworking beauty to elope, upsetting the plans of a gang of thieves using her to haul priceless stones of antiquity.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

The same path, the same steps, the same ropeway lead the faithful to the same place at the pinnacle; the Kali Mandir and a Mazaar.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

A young woman slips in and out of the vastly different worlds of the oldest profession and motherhood as she struggles to provide her child with a normal childhood and nurture hopes of a better future.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

A young land surveyor confronts inexplicable events mirroring those from the mists of time muddying the reality of his present-day working honeymoon.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

A shopkeeper takes matters and the plastic sheeting covering his precious refrigerator into his own hands after his young assistant and a customer who reminds him of his own daughter teach him to care for more than just his possessions.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

A young boy dreams of sharing in the fabulous wealth and prosperity enjoyed by the endless procession of foreign tourists who come to admire the crumbling walls and broken edifices surrounding his village.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

Waves of love, friendship, loyalty, and betrayal lap through the lives of two women as they grow up from a shared childhood and youth to married adulthood in diverging circumstances.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.

A local school teacher resurrects his childhood rubber-band gun skills to introduce his class of high-spirited young boys to the immutable laws of motion and aerodynamics.

Poems and stories inspired by the people and monuments of Champaner-Pavagadh, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gujarat, Western India.