For Raghu Rai, Mumbai has been like a mini New-York – the business hub of an over-crowded nation; a cultural melting pot overflowing with job-seekers, dreamers and dynamic businessmen with a high level of energy almost always palpable.
The city is wrought with social, cultural, religious and political tensions; and is a metropolis that, like Kolkata, has been photographed extensively since the 1850s by some of the finest photographers in the world.