Bombay, 1975: A City of Contrasts In 1975, Bombay was a city pulsing with life, ambition, and contradiction. The scent of the sea mixed with the aroma of street-side vada pavs and incense from roadside shrines. Double-decker BEST buses rumbled through the streets alongside black-and-yellow Premier Padmini taxis. The skyline was dotted with colonial-era buildings, mills, and the rising silhouettes of new concrete towers. The textile mills of Girangaon were still the city’s economic engine, while

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