You are always in a crowd in this city. Stand at Churchgate station or VT terminus anytime after 0600 hrs on a weekday and be overwhelmed with the tidal waves of humanity. Mumbai, India’s economic capital for over 150 years, is the subcontinent’s outward-looking commercial face and its melting pot. Its skyline is a combination of gothic towers, skyscrapers, mill chimneys and shanties. The streets are giddying, dotted with panel-beaten English double-decker buses, waspish yellow and black taxis, long wooden carts stacked with hessian-stitched blocks of cargo and mangoes carried in pyramids on plates.