Meeting Ananya in South Mumbai
Ananya starts from South Mumbai. Shutter times are on her flyer.
Hotels in town are old, grand and full of staff who notice things. That is one reason men book Ananya through the wall: one call, one name, one knock. She is Indian, English and Hindi both, and South Mumbai is where she starts. Her poster is top level on the flyer, ₹40,000 for the poori raat, and that bill does not grow because the hotel has a doorman.
South Mumbai is Churchgate and Fort with their stone offices, Nariman Point and Cuffe Parade with the tall hotels on the water, the Causeway and the lanes behind it where the cheaper rooms are, Kala Ghoda, Ballard Estate, and up past Marine Lines to Kemps Corner and Malabar Hill where the flats are. Ananya comes to a room in any of these, and goes north to Bandra, Andheri, Navi Mumbai or Thane without the price moving.
