Mumbai: Pop queen Madonna arrived in Mumbai around noon today after a visit to Rajasthan, where she was on a year-end leisure trip with husband Guy Ritchie, son, and five friends.

Madonna arrived in Mumbai on a chartered flight and evaded the media while driving to the Taj at Gateway, where she has booked the entire fifth floor. She is expected to stay in the city for a day or two.

Madonna spent five days in Rajasthan, during which she toured Udaipur and Jodhpur, and also made trips to Nathdwara for a darshan of Lord Krishna, and the Eklingji Temple.

She ushered in the New Year at a private heritage resort at a village 150 km away from Jodhpur.

During her brief stay, Madonna is said to have been so taken up by Rajasthani folk music that she plans to incorporate bits of it in her next album.

Source: Mid Day.

MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) - Pop star Madonna toured the Mumbai slums on Tuesday with Gregory David Roberts, the convicted robber who turned his time spent there following an escape from an Australian prison into the best-selling novel "Shantaram".

The singer, who is on an extended New Year’s break in India with family, walked around Cuffe Parade, a seafront neighbourhood where million-dollar high rises sit next to fishermen’s huts, typical of the gulf between the city’s richest and poorest.