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...This civic spirit of Bombay is not well understood by the rest of the world. The week before the blasts, Reader's Digest came out with a specious, culturally biased survey declaring that Bombay was the world's rudest city?and the politest was that famed citadel of courtesy, New York City. "In Mumbai, they'll step over a person who's fallen in the street," the magazine quoted a Bombayite as saying. But as soon as the bombs went off, Bombayites stooped low to pick up anyone who had fallen in the street, and carried their blood-soaked bodies...
...work." Indeed, in the aftermath of the bombs, Bombay's people showed resilience and bravery?just as those in Madrid, London and New York did in similar circumstances. The Sensex, India's benchmark stock index, rose 3% the day after the attacks. But for all the Mumbaiker spirit, the bombs showed that economic growth does not inoculate a society from those who want to use a bomb to make their political point...
...there was an intoxicating freedom in telling stories to my kids that was using a kind of reliance on faith. I said, I?d love to make a movie under that umbrella of feeling. So I proceeded to write, cast, crew, shoot, edit, and conduct myself in that same spirit of I don?t know what?s coming, but I have faith that the gods of stories will come and help...
...giving honest opinions, time and simple strategies to aid recovery. I disapprove of the word cure, for no such thing exists. Good health is about balance, and ill health occurs when the balance in the body is lost. If one can encourage rebalancing the mind, body and spirit, then health is a natural outcome. Diksha Chakravarti Reading, England While some complementary therapies may be harmless placebos, they typically involve a lot of interaction between patient and practitioner. By contrast, conventional medicine is often run like a production line that goes all out for speed. Communication with patients is cut back...
...Basques of my generation have never known peace. Despite the region's industrial prowess and rich entrepreneurial spirit, this proud region of less than 2 million people saddled on the western slopes of the Pyrenees has since the 1960s trudged a destructive path of terrorism, extortion, government dirty wars and the social numbness that often accompanies deep fear and unspoken pain. ETA's goal of Basque independence from Spain and France was pursued, from the outset, through selective attacks against police and military forces but became more and more indiscriminate - a bomb in a Barcelona supermarket in 1987 caused...