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...York’s 9/11, Madrid’s 3/11, and London’s 7/7, Bombay will now remember 7/11: Starting at 6:24 p.m. on Tuesday July 11, Bombay was rocked by seven successive, devastating blasts. Timers detonated bombs left in overhead luggage racks in first-class train compartments, ripping apart whole carriages, killing over 200 commuters, and injuring close to 800.By all accounts, Bombay has fought back. If terror attacks are meant, above all else, to cripple the lives and spirits of common people, then Bombay provided a fitting response—trains on the bomb-affected...
...make India kneel." --MANMOHAN SINGH, Indian Prime Minister, after train bombings in Bombay killed about 200 people. No group has claimed responsibility...
Bombay Blasts India presses for G-8 reaction In the wake of the train bombings, India's Prime Minister has demanded a strong G-8 response. Investigators have questioned more than 300 in a search for three suspects who may have ties to a militant Pakistani group...
...arms race. Political parties such as the BJP have exploited those tensions to gain votes, further widening the rift. In Bombay, ironically, religious tensions are eased by the sheer impracticality of communal segregation in a city of 16 million. As survivors of last week's attacks pointed out, the train carriages may separate men from women (every train has a carriage designated for women on their own) but there are no carriages marked "Hindus only." Yet an attack like this one can peel back the veneer of ethnic tolerance, revealing a common Hindu belief that Muslims aren't truly Indian...
...Mumbaikers share his gloom. Within a day, the city was almost back to normal. The train tracks were cleared, the victims cremated or buried. Commuters jammed station platforms once more. "It was a terrible thing, of course," says Mangesh Tandel, a clerk who had narrowly missed boarding one of the doomed trains, "but life goes on. We are all working class in Bombay, and for us the most important thing is work. There are no communal problems on a train." Look at the rescue efforts, says Tandel, or at the long lines of people who waited outside hospitals to donate...