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...Indias" are intensely present here in Mumbai, a megacity where slums sprawl around the enclaves and high-rises of the wealthy and powerful. But last week's attacks, aimed at some of Mumbai's ritziest sites, brought India's cocooned elite to the streets. Smartly dressed families toting digital cameras came to the rally in waves of taxis. Venerable Parsi patricians, their spouses supported by maids, strolled down the old Strand Road flying mini-Indian flags. Outside the Cafe Leopold, a 19th century bar that was hit by the terrorists, there was a roaring trade in "I 'heart' Mumbai...
...These people feel fear, they feel anger," says Milind Deora, the young and energetic member of parliament from South Mumbai who has openly criticized senior figures in his own Congress Party for not better managing the crisis brought on by the terror attacks. "Now is the time for these feelings to be channeled into some positive direction," he says. But much of the frustration voiced by the crowd has been aimed at the entire political establishment. Viral Shah, a Mumbai college student, wore the same t-shirt that many others did; it read in deep red letters on the back...
...Terminus, a central rail station for the transiting working class. It was the highest death toll for a single site during the three days of chaos. Many of the dead there were laborers. "For whom is the [Taj Mahal hotel] iconic?" asks Gulan Kripalani, the executive director of the Mumbai-based NGO, Citizens For Peace. "My maid has lived in Mumbai all her life and she has never seen...
...likely that the jumble of frustrations and anxieties being aired by India's citizens may lessen as Mumbai picks itself up after "26/11." But with the affluent classes riled and focused on the country's problems, maverick politicians like Deora and others in civil society hope for a reinvigoration of Indian politics. "If the informed and educated don't lend a voice of unity and strength now," says Deora, "who will?" Farzeen Barucha, a 21-year-old Mumbaikar, agrees. "Some people may think there's not much value in me standing here," he says. "But this is the start...
...jihadists who tore up Mumbai last week rely on party drugs usually associated with Western decadence to stay awake and alert throughout their three-day killing spree? Britain's Telegraph newspaper suggests that they did, citing unidentified officials claiming physical evidence shows the assailants used cocaine and other stimulants to sustain their violent frenzy. And if the notion of self-anointed holy warriors on a coke binge sounds incongruous, the report also maintains that the killers imbibed the psychedelic drug LSD while fighting advancing security forces...