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...wanted to get married, and so we just thought, Let's go there.' ANNA-BELL, a 6-year-old German girl, on trying to elope to Africa with her 5-year-old boyfriend; they were picked up by police at a railway station near her home...
...India's Muslims because of what historian Ramachandra Guha calls "the failures of the Indian state." The country's 138 million Muslims, who comprise 13.4% of the population, are poorer and less educated than the rest of India and vastly underrepresented in both India's largest employer, the state railway system, and its élite civil service...
...police sources giving out conflicting information about the number of terrorists, the number of hostages, the number of people trapped and the progress of the siege. At one point, while the siege was still on, several local channels reported that fresh firing had erupted at four locations near the railway station. This time, the police arrived immediately with sirens blaring - but the rumor turned out to be false...
...spent the summer in Mumbai. The sites targeted in last week’s terrorist attack read like a checklist of the places where you could have found me this August. The railway station across from my newspaper office. Metro Cinema. Colaba Causeway. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower—better known simply as the Taj—and the Oberoi Hotel...
...overwhelming sentiment among residents is one of having been let down. "Mumbai has been a bad scene for so many years," says Sheetal Javeri, an administration professional, emerging from CST, the railway terminal struck by terrorists on Wednesday night. "But the government has taken no steps. If five-star hotels can be targeted so easily, where is the common man to go?" She has little option but to use the commuter rail line despite the attacks. "But that doesn't mean I don't fear for my safety or my family's safety," she says. "They still don't know...