Streets of Mumbai follows Dev Roy, a twenty-one-year-old nanotechnology student at IEC Bombay. Brilliant, methodical, and emotionally guarded, Dev lives by precision and control. He avoids distractions, relationships, and anything that threatens the perfection he’s spent years building. But his orderly world begins to unravel.

Dev’s life is disrupted when he’s forced to collaborate on a sustainability project with his childhood friend, Aditya, and his academic rival, Sanjanna, a sharp-tongued CS student who challenges his every move. Their tense alliance sets the stage for unexpected growth—and confrontation. As Dev tries to navigate their clashing personalities, he is blindsided by a familiar voice at a Delhi university fest: Garima, a confident spoken-word poet and the very girl who once stirred something in him back in school.

What begins as awkward curiosity evolves into an emotional reckoning. Dev finds himself caught between the life he’s planned and the life he’s denied—the one shaped by uncertainty, desire, and unspoken regret. Garima reawakens parts of him he thought he had outgrown, while Ishita, a sharp MBA student with an eye for strategy, enters the picture with her own interest in him—personally and intellectually.

Set against the energy and pressure of modern Mumbai, Streets of Mumbai is a coming-of-age novel about control and vulnerability, intellect and emotion. As Dev faces academic deadlines, emotional confusion, and painful choices, he begins to ask the questions he’s always avoided: Who is he, really? And what does it mean to live a life that isn’t part of a plan?