I left my home in Santacruz West, a suburb of Bombay, in 1976. The anticipation of moving to Kerala did not diminish the pangs of saying goodbye to the only home I had known. For my mother, who had moved to Bombay with my father, this would be a homecoming. For me, it would be…

A Santacruz girl
Mumbai wasn't always the hyper-crowded megacity it is today—at least, not all of it. In the first part of our new series, Going Home, Lathika George takes us to the Santacruz of her childhood, in a city that once was Bombay
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