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For readers familiar with Sir Salman's Midnight's Children, for which he won the Booker Prize, this upcoming work revisits the Bombay neighbourhood of that book, where "a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire".

But in 1963, Bombay lifted prohibition to save “the people from ruining their health by drinking illicit liquor, which was in most cases worse than poison.”

But she refused and moved to Bombay, where the surveillance continued.

Sir Percival David was born into a wealthy family in Bombay in 1892 and inherited a baronetcy from his father, as well as ownership of the family company.

Across three tables, at the city's Bombay Brasserie, sat councillors, party members and supporters.