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...terrorist bombing, the first thought in the victim's head would probably not be to praise the leader's economic policy. But for the young broker?and for most of those wounded in the Bombay blasts, who are able to afford the price of a first-class train ticket in large part due to the economic reforms that Singh set in motion as far back as the early 1990s?the admiration arises from the main reason why they live in Bombay: to make money. Bombay gets struck again and again because it is, more than any other Indian city...
...again. That was the first thought that flashed through Manish Shah's mind when he heard news of the bombs that brought Bombay's evening commute to a screeching halt. Before he even knew the details, before the first images of bloodied bodies spilling from shattered train carriages flashed across television screens, Shah was dialing his friends from the bank where he works, hoping to hear the voices of those who had taken the express trains home that evening. He was met with silence...
...After the train attacks, police rounded up hundreds of the city's young Muslim men for questioning, though most were soon released. That did nothing to soothe some Muslims. "We are always the first to be blamed," fumes Majid Khan, a student from a Muslim slum in Bandra, not far from the site of one of the attacks. "We are tired of this police harassment. We are just as much a part of this city as anyone else...
...Bhatt. "We need justice for the crimes of Gujarat. Good government means hitting the violence head on, no matter who is behind it." But Ajai Sahni, director of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management, cautions that it's a big step from being disgruntled to bombing a train. "Everyone is a minority of some sort in a place as big as India, and almost every group has a grievance. The point is that not every group has someone mobilizing their grievances. Radical Muslims in India receive significant support and arms from outside." Though it has been accused...
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS SARA GRUEN JACOB JANKOWSKI has never had fantasies about joining the circus. But when his parents die suddenly, he freaks out, drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from...