Mumbai has always been in and of the world. There has never been a time in the history of the city when it hasnotbeen cosmopolitan whatever level of urban analytics one applies to it. While the city of Mumbai has name recognition in discussions of world literature through a handful of recognized writers and mainly through prose (Salman Rushdie, Suketu Mehta, Vikram Chandra), their presence sometimes constitutes the brightly-lit space beyond which lies further unexplored territory of loss and living, a different “duniya” that is unseen in the world. This essay looks at alternative constructions of multiple, contradictory and diverse worlds in multiple genres, but mainly in the multilingual poetry of Bombay writers, especially in the hidden locations of embattled lives that emerge in the poetry of the Dalit poets of Mumbai.