Posted in India on December 1st, 2008 8 Comments »
The suburban train to CST in south Mumbai was rather empty – even for a Sunday. The station itself was unusually quiet, and the platforms lacked the typical crowds that throng forward trying to secure a seat on the incoming train before you can even step off. Outside of the Victorian-era train station, passers-by stop [...]
Posted in India on November 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
It has continued for three days, claimed the lives of at least 195 people, and brought a city of 20 million Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians together. The city moves forward, slowly. And somberly.
As if trying to cleanse the city of the evil that has befallen it, a rare overnight rain shower in the middle [...]
Posted in India on September 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Since January 2004, the country labeled as a “success” in wake of the surge and the bribery of the Sunni insurgency has the world’s highest death toll from terrorist attacks.
However, the inauspicious position of second place on the list goes not to Afghanistan or Pakistan, but to India. More than 3,800 Indian civilians have lost [...]