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...already "done" Wafi Mall, which opened in 1991 and since then has virtually doubled in size, with a new subterranean "suq shopping experience" planned. We've stopped by the chic Emirates Towers Boulevard to mooch around Villa Moda, the designer emporium that also has stores in Kuwait, Qatar and Bombay. And Alanoud has taken me to the Village Mall, near her family home in the ritzy suburb Jumeirah, where the latest must-have accessory is a clutch bag made from a gutra, the checked head scarf worn by Arab...
...finding that people come to us for something unique, artistic or distinctive," she says. Haute femme's influence can be traced to radically different stores. New York City's John Derian does a roaring trade in delicate decoupage (a Marie Antoinette favorite), while even mainstream retailers like the Bombay Co. offer affordable mirrored chests that would not look out of place in a Right Bank apartment...
...gemstones. Last year India imported $83 million worth of colored gemstones and exported $193 million in finished stones, according to the country's Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council. And 55% of the world's diamond supply in value terms (85% of volume) is processed in India and traded in Bombay, now known as Mumbai...
...People believed in wealth that the eye could see," says Princess Esra Jah, the Turkish-born former wife of the grandson of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, over tea at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay. Her work for the family's ambitious restoration of Hyderabad's Chowmahalla Palace as a museum is much admired, and nobles hope the family will be allowed to display permanently the Nizam's fabled jewel collection, which was acquired by the Indian government...
...behind the latest bombings, the latest in a string of recent attacks? In August 2003, two bomb blasts in Bombay killed more than 50 people. In September 2004, around 30 people died in a gun attack on a temple in Gujarat. And last October, more than 60 were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Delhi. Another Indian intelligence officer who spoke to TIME linked Tuesday's bombings to amateurish attacks late last year in the tech towns of Hyderabad and Bangalore, and possibly the Delhi blasts too. In Hyderabad last October, a suicide bomber blew himself...