GROWING UP IN MUMBAI, INDIA IN 1940s, '50s AND '60s: Includes stories strangely connected with Diwali, World War I, World War II, India's Independence Movement, Superman, Prithvi Raj Kapoor, New York World's Fair 1964, and more.

Author Santosh Kothari, age 78, a successful professional structural consulting engineer and a successful real estate developer and investor, looks back at the time of his childhood in Mumbai (Bombay), India. The period of this book is 1942-1964. This period begins during world war II and India's independence from 200 years of British Colonial rule and ends with his arrival in United States.

It was a unique period of transition from old to new. There was very little personal transportation-c...