Indians know Mumbai as the city of dreams. A city that is home to the burgeoning Hindi film industry often nicknamed ‘Bollywood.’ It is also the commercial and economic capital of the country – the Bombay Stock Exchange building flanking the Marine Drive symbolizes the dreams and aspirations of modern India. There is a sinister co-incidence...

Mumbai residents have got another reason to compare their city to Manhattan. The Government of Maharashtra says it plans to build a statue off the coast of Mumbai to rival New York’s Statue of Liberty. The statue will be of the Maratha warrior king Shivaji, a hero in Maharashtra and the rest of India for his defiance of Mughal and British forces. There...