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Bombay to Mumbai, the growth of stature and loss of innocence
Updated On: 28 June, 2019 07:27 AM IST | | Mihir Bose
Part of mid-day's original think tank, Mihir Bose sees the changes the city experienced as mirroring those that transformed cricket
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A game of cricket being played at the Oval Maidan on October 22, 2011. Pic/Getty Images
Mumbai was Bombay when I grew up in Chacha Nehru's reign. Our SSC results came out the day Nehru died and I have many happy memories of the city. On the 40th anniversary of mid-day, my most abiding memory is of an evening in the summer of 1978, when sitting on wicker chairs on the lawns of the CCI, sipping tea, I suggested to Khalid Ansari that he should start a new paper to take on the The Evening News. I returned to London to send him a detailed plan for a new publication, arranged syndication rights and wrote a regular column called London Letter.
Much has changed since then with, perhaps, the greatest change in how the city is perceived by foreigners. I was made very aware of this two years ago when I returned to Mumbai to cover the first power boat races held in the city.
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