{"product_id":"book-zh8y","title":"Mumbai","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the East India Company merged seven islands into Bombay (now Mumbai), change has been constant-but now it is used as a weapon for displacement, disguised as development. Slums are erased overnight to make way for luxury towers priced in tens of crores. The working class is pushed to the margins-literally-and into distant housing projects with no infrastructure, transport or sanitation. Entire communities are uprooted while a new Mumbai is built for the privileged few, behind closed gates, inside glass walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSidharth Bhatia's \u003cem\u003eMumbai: A Million Islands\u003c\/em\u003e is a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation. What is vanishing is not just space, but memory, history and the very fabric of a living city. Mumbai's famed spirit of survival is being tested like never before. Where the original seven islands had symbolized a synergy, today they're multiplying as fractures-social, spatial and economic-splitting the city into a million islands, each more isolated than the other. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50464791855408,"sku":"BDzh8y","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/zh8y-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779325032","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-zh8y","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}