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financial capital and largest metropolitan area in India
- They all wore handkerchiefs or printed Bombay Dyeing hand towels on their heads to stave off the sun.Chapter 2 (88% in)
- She arrived on the Bombay—Cochin flight.Chapter 5 (**% in)
- When Sophie Mol's plane appeared in the skyblue Bombay—Cochin sky, the crowd pushed against the iron railing to see more of everything.Chapter 6 (12% in)
- The Arrivals Lounge was a press of love and eagerness, because the Bombay—Cochin flight was the flight that all the Foreign Returnees came home on.Chapter 6 (13% in)
- Then the Bombay—Cochin people came out From the cool air into the hot air.Chapter 6 (23% in)
- Adoor Basi, the most popular, best-loved comedian in Malayalam cinema, had just arrived (Bombay–Cochin).Chapter 6 (42% in)
- Then she dictated a letter to Annamma Chandy's brother-in-law who was the Regional Manager of Padma Pickles in Bombay.Chapter 8 (12% in)
There are no more uses of "Mumbai" in The God of Small Things.
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