Journalist and author Naresh Fernandes’ new book, City Adrift , begins with the paradoxical dreams builders sell home- buyers in Mumbai - a retreat away from the chaos of Mumbai, built in Mumbai - which seldom fails to flummox him.

Naresh Fernandes, author of City Adrift, says he is preoccupied with the construction and fragmentation of the city he insists on calling ‘Bombay’. Pic/Nimesh Dave