A SHORT HISTORY OF BOMBAY (1534 - 2008) - FROM BOM BAHIA TO BOMB BAY
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Issue Dated: December 14, 2008
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Initial Public Offering | Reliance Industry | Cross Maidan | Middle India | anti-capitalist | romantic era | Haji Mastan | Karim Lala | Dawood Ibrahim | Mafia don | jehadi terrorism | Rio de Janeiro | Earth Summit | Ozone layer | Maximum City | plague | Babri Masjid | pogrom | intelligencia | Subhash Ghai | Inter Services Intelligence | Tiger Memon | Chotta Rajan | Nationalist Don | Marathi pride | Me Mumbaikar | Victoria Terminal | Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal | bloodsuckers | modus operandi | Madrid subway | London Tube blasts | carpetbaggers | moral policing | community profiling | cosmopolitan | torn asunder | purveyors of identity politics | parochialism | bashing up hapless |

When the first electric train ran from Church Gate to Borivali nobody would have imagined that Bombay Local will become inseparable from the city itself. It is for no small measure that this service is called the “Lifeline of Mumbai” much on the lines of ‘Tube’ in London.
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