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Bombay

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About Bombay

Mumbai, also known as Bombay, is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India, with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, which is among the most populous metropolitan areas in the world with a population of over 23 million. Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires of any city in Asia.

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The first ever organised nudist movement was set up by just three people. They were Englishmen living in Bombay in 1890 and they disliked the dress codes of the British Raj, which were very hot. So they established a group called the Fellowship of the Naked Trust and they began to meet together in the nude.

from No Such Thing As Doing It Dinosaur-Style, 2015-02-27 at 00:09:16 · read transcript

Other times Bombay came up

  1. Did you guys say that David Sassoon invented a pickle? Did he? Yeah. Which Sassoon is this now? This is the original Sassoon who fled to Bombay. The Opium guy. Captain Opium, yeah, 1813. Just to give a little bit of, you know, also he founded a lot of hospitals, libraries, museums, orphanages and schools. When you got that sweet, sweet drug money rolling in, You're going to need to do some reputation laundry, aren't you?

    No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon, 2025-05-08 · listen

  2. Does this make any sense? Did you guys see that David Sassoon invented a pickle? Did he? Which Sassoon is this now? Sorry. This is the original Sassoon who fled to Bombay. The Opium guy. Captain Opium. 1830. Just to give a little bit of, you know, also he founded a lot of hospitals, libraries, museums, orphanages and schools. When you've got that sweet, sweet drug money rolling in, you're going to need to do some reputation laundry, aren't you?

    582: No Such Thing As Siegfried Bassoon, 2025-05-08 · listen

  3. Hey, you'll never guess. This bedside reading is going to come in useful after all. I don't need to tell you all these facts anymore about the gender of everyone in Bombay in 1889. Wake up, another bloody caste. When's it going to end?

    No Such Thing As Lithuanian Soap Ornaments, 2026-10-22 · listen

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