India, Nov. 15 -- Since the British East India Company merged seven islands into Bombay (now Mumbai), change has been constant. Now change is used as a weapon for displacement that is disguised as development. Slums are erased to make way for luxury flats, each of which is then sold for tens of crores. The working-class are pushed to the margins, and into distant housing projects. Entire communities are uprooted while a new Mumbai is built for the privileged, who live behind closed gates and glass walls. Sidharth Bhatia's Mumbai: A Million Islands is a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation. What is vanishing is not just space but memory, history and a version of this city. Mumbai's famed "spirit of survival" is being tested again. Where the original seven islands symbolised one kind of shift, today the fractures are multiplying - social, spatial and economic - splitting the city into a host of islands, each isolated from the other....