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...teeming capital full of color, pornographic graffiti and coed public latrines. It was crowded, relentlessly commercial (a town crier's announcement in one episode ends with an ad for a flour miller) and, above all, filthy. Instructing the set designers, says Doelger, "I told them to think about India--Bombay or Calcutta." It's as if you don't just see this Rome, you smell...
...Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual." A President's wish or desire, to a common person or especially an election official, is akin to a direct order. And to say that a phone call during vote counting is not unusual is to condone wrongdoing. Siva Ravindran Bombay...
...then on July 26, the skies burst. A meter of monsoon rain fell on Saki Naka in 24 hours, causing the 30-m cliff behind the Afzad family home to collapse. Around 25 shacks perched on top of the precipice fell onto another 25 nestled below, according to Bombay Joint Chief Fire Officer G.S. Sawant. The landslide killed 150 people, including Afzad's parents, three teenage sisters and his 12-year-old brother...
...week's end, authorities said the floods had killed 370 people in Bombay and about 900 across Maharashtra state, and had caused some $230 million worth of damage. The storm effectively shut down the city of 16 million. Power and telephone lines were severed. Without staff or customers, stores closed. Trains and buses stopped running, and planes were grounded because the international airport was flooded. Streets stayed blocked for days by vehicles whose drivers had abandoned them. If Bombay really is the business capital of the next big economy, asked the city's stranded businessmen, how come the entire infrastructure...
...play a role. "But this dual pact approach is not helpful," he says. "The entire world community needs to come together on this issue. The pattern of climate instability we're seeing now is what we predicted for the end of this decade. Look at what's happening in Bombay." According to environmentalists, the torrential rain in the city of 16 million is an augur that the world must get its act?or acts?together or face the perils of an increasingly unstable environment...