Mumbai Literature Festival 'to have strong south Asian feel'

Travellers taking flights to Mumbai could be interested to hear that the city's forthcoming Literature Festival will offer a wide range of work from writers across south Asia.

This weekend, the first Mumbai Fully Booked event is taking place between December 2nd and 4th 2011, with associate festival director Namita Devidayal telling CNNGo.com that it will take influence from other countries in the region.

"It's a crossover festival focused on south Asia, curated in a way that brings people together from different fields via books," Mr Devidayal said.

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Mumbai delights in Bollywood flash mob

People who took flights to Mumbai recently may have been among those caught up in a flash mob event taking place in the city.

Around 200 dancers converged on Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station as part of a surprise event on November 27th 2011, where they broke out into spontaneous dancing to the music from the hit movie Rang de Basanti.

People in the station recorded footage of the event and it quickly spread across the country through YouTube and Twitter.

Organiser of the mob Shonan Kothari explained that she put it together as she had not been part of a flash mob when she had been in Europe and wanted to bring the phenomenon to India, which proved to be very popular.

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