A mesmerizing tour of Mumbai’s street iconography that reveals the city’s multiple identities

Mumbai Masti captures the distinctive iconography of a melting pot of communities through a distinctly unconventional prism. It audaciously brings together two diverse creative energies with electric results.

Globally acclaimed designer Krsna Mehta takes his signature visual narrative to new levels of edginess while urban analyst Bachi Karkaria’s textual commentary is at once incisive and cheeky. This is a funny, zany, unabashedly honest portrait of a city like no other, replete with its graphic streets, its people, its serial celebrations and its alter ego, Bollywood.

Krsna Mehta design director of Zeba, has virtually changed the way the world looks at contemporary Indian textiles. With a degree from FIT, New York and after 7 years of working in textiles and home furnishings, he won four awards from Elle Décor for Designer of the Year. His explorations in graphic art, photography and mixed media, and his keen interest in urban culture have marked his numerous public installations and interior projects, all of which have given a definitive face to contemporary Indian design. In this, his first foray into visual direction for a book, his unique, quirky design style is on full display. Krsna lives in and works from Mumbai.

Bachi Karkaria is among India’s foremost journalists, and has created and edited some of the Times of India’s most successful papers. Erratica, her satirical column in The Sunday Times of India, has a huge fan following. Having pioneered thoughtprovoking writings on AIDS and urban issues in India, Bachi is the first Indian on the board of the World Editors' Forum, an active member of the International Women’s Media Foundation, and recipient of the international Mary Morgan-Hewitt Award for Lifetime Achievement.