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A SHORT HISTORY OF BOMBAY (1534 - 2008) - FROM BOM BAHIA TO BOMB BAY
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Issue Dated: December 14, 2008
Tags : 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 |
Tags : 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 |
This was the year when the nexus between politicians, real estate sharks and the mafia was consecrated. An ambitious project to reclaim land from the Arabian Sea is launched. The result is modern day Nariman Point and Cuffe Parade. Since then, Bombay has always been associated with sky high property prices. Bombay residents still compare Nariman Point with Manhattan. Nariman Point is also home to the Oberoi Hotel that was attacked so viciously. It was also 40 years before AR Antulay, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra became involved in the notorious 'Cement Scam'
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
