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...that represents the power and vitality of Mumbai. More than 3.5 million people pass through the station every day. But the 58 people who were killed in the attack on VT, which injured an additional 104, were a world away from the wealthy élite at the Taj and Oberoi hotels or the foreign visitors killed at the Leopold Café and the Nariman House Jewish center. They were office clerks commuting back to the suburbs and migrant laborers waiting for trains to their villages. Those who died included Chandulal Thandel, a bookseller closing his stall in the station...
Echoes of Hell and its abyss of despair resounded from Mumbai at the end of November, when terrorists rampaged through some of the city's most storied sites. From the infernal glare of smoke and flame that wreathed the Taj Mahal Hotel and the nearby Oberoi came harrowing tales of the demonic cruelty carried out inside. Hotel guests were lined up against walls and sprayed with machine-gun fire; then, according to some accounts, the terrorists placed grenades in the mouths of fallen hostages as traps for pursuing security forces. Hospitals are still filled with the wounded as social workers...
...Mumbai attacks targeted two of India's iconic hotels, the Taj and the Oberoi, where terrorists shot and killed guests indiscriminately and held hundreds hostage for nearly 60 hours. This has proved a deadly blow to an industry already wounded by the worldwide economic downturn. Big hotels across the country have had to invest in beefed-up security, including metal detectors and baggage scanners, and Ratan Tata, chairperson of Tata Sons which owns the Taj group of hotels, has announced that the group will undertake its own anti-terror and security arrangements. But, as P.R.S. Oberoi, chairperson of The Oberoi...
...think of the Oberoi Hotel, which lords over the Marine Drive skyline, its windows glittering. I think about the polished marble lobby of the Taj, watched over by doormen who swing open the hotel entrance with gloved hands...
...from most of the attacks, but in the end, Raygor said they were able to have the event with out a hitch.The morning of the wedding, after Raygor and his father, cousins, and uncle had finished setting up for the event, they decided to visit the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels to assess the damage. “There were a lot of media people and bystanders interested in seeing what was going on and how things ended up,” he said.Raygor could see burn marks on the sides of the hotels, and shattered glass was everywhere. Firefighters...