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August 16, 2018

Once Upon a Time in the City of Mumbai

Mahim beach on a Sunday afternoon. A place where I spent many evenings of my childhood. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

Flashes of light on a rain soaked street that reminiscent of walking hand in hand in the rain with my mother. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

Eid prayers outside Bandra Railway Station. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

Pravin Kumar, seated on the cold floor of his tiny flour mill, counts the day's earnings before handing it over to his wife. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

A kitten soaks in the winter sun accompanied by fallen leaves and a century old manhole cover which has the city's old name. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

Under the Bridge, at play in her mother's saree. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

Adventurous real estate company that constructed a mini Eiffel Tower to entice customers. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

Warning signs of falling debris during repairs at the New India Assurance Building, an insurance firm. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

During renovation of a McDonalds outlet in a mall, a fire marshall noticed the two Ronalds facing a wall in the parking lot. It reminded him of a whatsapp forward where six college kids are seated in their home staring at a wall that has the word TV scribbled on it. Immediately he too scribbled the same. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

Stock broker's post lunch snack. © Ritesh Uttamchandani

In The Red Cat and Other Stories, Ritesh Uttamchandani chronicles his hometown, Mumbai, India, a city he describes as “addictive like a bad drug.” The book includes 98 images the former news photographer shot with an iPhone, and ends with a fable Uttamchandani’s mother recited to him as a child. The fable tells the story of a... Read More

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