India Booked | Colaba: The Diamond at the Tip of Mumbai
b"Colaba, the southernmost tip of Mumbai, is Mumbai's most iconic neighbourhood.\\nThis bustling locality\\u2014with the Gateway of India, the world-famous Taj Mahal\\nHotel, and the Colaba Causeway, a shopper's paradise\\u2014is an unparalleled tourist\\nattraction. But barely 200 years ago, it was a rocky, jackal-infested island,\\nseparated from the rest of Bombay by a temperamental creek. In this episode,\\nhost Ayushi Mona discusses the compelling biography of the neighbourhood with\\nauthor Shabnam Minwalla. The podcast much like the book unravels accounts of\\ncolonial rivalries and dowry negotiations; and of shrewd industrialists who\\ntransformed this doomed island into the centre of trade during the cotton boom\\nof the 1860s. She navigates through the sometimes charming, sometimes seedy\\nstreets to track its evolution from a spiritual and recuperative retreat for\\nBritish soldiers to a coveted residential area for the Brits and Indians alike.\\nTune in!"