Meeting Maira in Colaba
Maira starts from Colaba. Shutter times are on her flyer.
Walk down the Causeway past the Regal junction and the hawkers; the lanes behind it are where Maira is used to meeting. She is Indian, she starts from Colaba, and her price sits on the flyer's first line: Street level, ₹10,000 the 2 ghante, ₹30,000 the night. Her old poster called her an elite call girl; we would rather say a South Mumbai escort who turns up looking like her photos.
Colaba is the one part of Mumbai where a hotel is never far: grand old ones behind the Gateway, a strip of mid-range hotels and guest houses along Arthur Bunder Road, and the tall flats of Cuffe Parade a short ride south, where many of her callers are put up by their companies. From Churchgate or CSMT it is one straight cab ride down; tell her the hotel and she knows the lane.
