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...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" T-shirts. Each cost 100 rupees, more than what many Indians...
...Eighty-year-old Behram Contractor loves the city that his Parsi community has played a vital role in building. "The Taj was built by a Parsi, because the big hotel, the Watson, wouldn't let Indians in," he says. But the city's politicians have lost Contractor's confidence. "Today Mumbai lies shattered because it is ruled by people with no conscience," he says, referring to the blame game currently taking place between the ruling Congress Party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). On Nov. 28, while Mumbai was still in the grip of terrorism, the BJP released...
Nobody should assume that the defeat of Ahmadinejad would solve all issues between Iran and the West. But it might change the climate. "While the pragmatic conservatives drive a hard bargain on the nuclear issue, they drive a bargain nevertheless," says Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian-American Council in Washington. With a new Administration coming to Washington, too, there is a chance of a more conciliatory mood between the two rivals. "Iran and the U.S. have many common interests in the region. Our position should not be one of opposition but friendly competition," says Qalibaf. Translated from words...
...Trita Parsi, author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S., believes that even Iran could be persuaded to play a more constructive role - albeit at the price of accepting its expanding influence in the region. "Excluding Iran from regional diplomacy fuels rather than diminishes Tehran's propensity to act the spoiler," says Parsi. Noting that Iran attended U.S.-initiated international conferences on Afghanistan and Iraq, Parsi says Iran's bluff should have been called by inviting it to attend Annapolis, too. "If Iran declined and the rest of the region attended, then the U.S. would...
...Cricket arrived here in the 19th century, when the Parsi community in Mumbai picked up the game from English settlers. The game soon spread around the subcontinent, crossing religious and caste boundaries as it went. India played its first international game in 1932, and it was popularized with the advent of television and the introduction of one-day matches (in which each side is limited to facing only 300 balls during its turn at bat - as opposed to the traditional five-day test match in which each side bats twice, with no limit on the duration of an inning). After...