Namaste
How locals say hello in Mumbai
Winter (November–February)
Bargain at markets. The local train is the city's lifeblood — rush hour is not for the faint-hearted.
For millennia, seven marshy islands off India's western coast were home to the Koli fishing people who called the bay Mumba Aai after their goddess. The Portuguese arrived in 1534 and dubbed it Bombaim — good little bay. In 1661 the islands were given to King Charles II of England as part of his Portuguese bride's dowry, then leased to the East India Company for a symbolic ten pounds per year. The British gradually linked the islands by land reclamation, and the resulting city became the financial engine of the entire subcontinent.
Mumbai's Dharavi is one of the most productive slums in the world, generating over $1 billion annually.
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