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CALCUTTA, India—After New York’s 9/11, Madrid’s 3/11, and London’s 7/7, Bombay will now remember 7/11: Starting at 6:24 p.m. on Tuesday July 11, Bombay was rocked by seven successive, devastating blasts. Timers detonated bombs left in overhead luggage racks in first-class train compartments, ripping apart whole carriages, killing over 200 commuters, and injuring close to 800.By all accounts, Bombay has fought back. If terror attacks are meant, above all else, to cripple the lives and spirits of common people, then Bombay provided a fitting response?...
...about the lingering effects of the caste system and corruption It was with great pride that I read the cover stories about the boom time in India [July 3], a country in which the ancient and the modern coexist. On a recent visit to India, I observed that downtown Bombay appears to have stood still in time, while changes are more apparent in the city's suburbs. India's great strides in education, technology and medicine can prove to the world that the country is a force to be reckoned with. Gita Varughese Mississauga, Canada Your report on the Indian...
...make India kneel." --MANMOHAN SINGH, Indian Prime Minister, after train bombings in Bombay killed about 200 people. No group has claimed responsibility...
...Bombay Blasts India presses for G-8 reaction In the wake of the train bombings, India's Prime Minister has demanded a strong G-8 response. Investigators have questioned more than 300 in a search for three suspects who may have ties to a militant Pakistani group...
...normal. The train tracks were cleared, the victims cremated or buried. Commuters jammed station platforms once more. "It was a terrible thing, of course," says Mangesh Tandel, a clerk who had narrowly missed boarding one of the doomed trains, "but life goes on. We are all working class in Bombay, and for us the most important thing is work. There are no communal problems on a train." Look at the rescue efforts, says Tandel, or at the long lines of people who waited outside hospitals to donate blood, and it was clear that the attacks had not divided the city...