Join Trip360 as you walk through Lin Baba’s Bombay or what remains of it makes for an interesting interaction with the city as you look at a popular pocket of the city through a book's eyes with Beyond Bombay!

As you walk, you will not only be tracing the trajectory of the novel through Colaba but how the book has lent itself to the city and vice versa. You start your tour in Colaba, an area that finds mention in the book right in the beginning – a start to his Mumbai experience. The small by-lanes of Colaba remain as seedy as ever and it is ‘Business as Usual’ here for the nefarious. Foreigners can expect to be accosted by the Prabhakers of today, offering drugs, accommodation and foreign currency exchange. Some things never change!

Walk down Colaba Causeway amidst rows of shops selling glittery baubles and clothes like they used to in the 80s except that they are dotted with many exclusive stores of international brands including the un-shantaram McDonald's, stop at Leopold Café immortalized by the book and discuss its presence.

Also see the Colaba Police Station where Lin is locked up before being transferred to Arthur Road Jail. From here, loop in towards Apollo Bunder and walk down the road Lin and Karla would take to India Guest House. Stop at India Guest House and move from here towards the busy Colaba Market and walk into Sassoon Dock!

The idea is to revisit Colaba and reconstruct events from Shantaram that take place in the pocket of the city. Interestingly, the wheels come a full circle here as the novel (his Mumbai experiences in particular) begins and ends in this area.