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One of the great things about working at The Economist is being able to tap into the knowledge of Correspond who come from and are based all around the world.

So if we want to know what's happening on the streets of Monte Video,

or eavesdrop on the latest debates playing out in the Vatican City, we've generally got

it covered. On the weekend intelligence, we've decided to take advantage of this.

So we're bringing you dispatches, love letters if you will, from our correspondent to their home city

detailing everything that's great about it while not shying away from the challenges that it faces.

I'm Ora Ogunbi and in this episode of the weekend intelligence, my colleague Leo Mirani reports from his home, Mumbai, or Bombay, as Leo insists on calling it.

Mumbai is famously an open city, known for welcoming all comers regardless of their color, cast, or creed. But as the city goes about constructing its future, Leo fears that Mumbai's diverse character

is being buried beneath the rubble. In this episode he asks,

how will all this construction change the city of dreams?

And who is the Mumbai of the future really for? You're going to be here. Hello from Bombay where I am sitting in my cozy, cool and relatively quiet office.

It's only cozy, cool and relatively quiet because I have the doors and windows closed

and the air conditioning turned on.

Outside, it's baking hot. and the air conditioning turned on.

Outside, it's baking hot and humid and the sounds of digging in construction are everywhere.

That's because I live in the middle of a construction site.

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