Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to travel to India Wednesday in the wake of Mumbai terrorist attacks
• Indian Police: Pakistani Group Behind Mumbai Attacks
• Captured Terrorist Ordered to Kill 'Until Last Breath'
• 6 Americans Among the Dead in India Terror Attacks
• Muslims Condemn Mumbai Attacks as Senseless
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• FOX FORUM: Mumbai: Death's New Paradigm?

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/16756?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Pakistan+warns+west%3A+we+cannot+fight+al-Qaida+if+crisis+escalatesch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Pakistan+%28News%29%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CAl-Qaida+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CAfghanistan+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Jason+Burkec7=2008_12_01c8=1126658c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Pakistanc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FPakistan" width="1" height="1" //divpSenior Pakistani intelligence officials have threatened to end military operations against Islamist militants along the country's Afghan border if India deploys troops on their eastern frontier./ppIn a rare briefing to senior local journalists, intelligence officials said the coming days would be "crucial" and threatened to pull out all the troops committed to the "war on terror" in the event of "an unwanted conflict" with India. "We will not leave a single troop on the western [Afghan] border if we are threatened by India," an official was reported as saying./ppPakistan currently has more than 100,000 soldiers engaged in operations in the semi-autonomous tribal zones where senior international militants connected to al-Qaida, local extremists and a significant proportion of the Taliban's leadership are thought to be based./ppThe Pakistani operations, largely funded by the United States, are seen by Nato commanders as vital to keep open supply lines to their troops in Afghanistan and to block, or at least hinder, movement by militants across the porous Afghan-Pakistan frontier./pp"These statements are aimed at sending a clear message to the US to intervene to defuse the situation, and that if India wants to use these tragic events as a pretext for a border conflict then that will not be tolerated," said Rasul Bakhsh Rais, professor of political science at Lahore University of Management Sciences./pp"They are saying that if Pakistan has to choose between fighting India and fighting the militants, then it will fight India."/ppThere are fears of a breakdown of the recent peace process between the nuclear-capable countries. After a bloody attack on India's parliament by militants linked by New Delhi to Pakistan in 2001, troops faced off across the Indian-Pakistan border throughout most of the following year with fierce artillery duels across the shared border of Kashmir./ppWashington, concerned about the distraction from efforts to contain Islamist extremism in the region, brokered a peace deal and encouraged a subsequent thaw. The two countries have fought three wars since achieving independence./ppPakistan's government condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied any involvement by any state institutions. /ppBut the groups that have been named by India as having some responsibility for the attacks, the Pakistan-based /ppLashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad, both have longstanding relationships with Pakistan's security establishment./ppIslamabad has also been forced to backtrack on a promise to send the chief of its main intelligence service, the military Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) to India to help with the investigation./ppConfusion over the dispatch of Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha to India, announced by Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani last week, has revealed the tension between the military establishment and the civilian government in Pakistan, local analysts say./ppA lower ranked official will now travel instead. The mix-up has been blamed on "miscommunication" by Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari./pp"The very fact that they wanted to send the head of the ISI shows how much the [civilian government] want to cooperate," said Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador to Washington and Brussels./pp"But the decision was taken without due recognition of the ground reality in Pakistan, that is to say without consultation with the military and other political players."/ppMohammad Sadiq, a spokesman for the Pakistani government, dismissed reports of tensions as "humbug". "Everything is very much in sync," he said./ppPakistan is making efforts to rally international diplomatic support. Yesterday its foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke by telephone to his counterparts in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates as well as to the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, Sadiq said. Pakistani analysts and commentators have insisted that India has been too hasty to blame Islamabad for the attacks. Many in Pakistan believe that New Delhi is using Pakistan as a scapegoat and are calling for an independent international commission of inquiry./pp"There was a massive intelligence failure on the part of India," said Rais. "The Pakistani government does not want another conflict. They have two insurgencies to deal with and enough other problems already."/ppPakistan's long history of using militants to further foreign policy objectives, initially against Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan in the 1980s and then subsequently in Kashmir, means their current claims of innocence are greeted with scepticism./ppIn recent years Pakistan has tried to rein in groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, prime suspects for the Mumbai attack, or Jaish-e-Muhammad, blamed for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, but it is unclear how much effort has been made to control the extremists, nor if those efforts have been successful./ppA Pakistani official yesterday suggested that one possibility was a "rogue" militant group, pointing out that the ISI itself had been bombed recently by extremists./ph2'State within a state'/h2pPakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was founded in 1948 by a strongBritish army officer/strong seconded to the fledgling country's military forces after independence. The agency became known for involvement in domestic politics, a trend accelerated by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, father of Benazir Bhutto, who set up a strongpolitical wing/strong. In the 90s, the ISI set up or encouraged a number of jihadi groups as irregular proxies fighting Indian troops in Kashmir. Recent efforts to dismantle or downgrade these groups have proved ineffective, with Pakistan itself suffering regular bombings. The ISI also aided the Taliban in the 90s and is alleged to have contacts with Afghan insurgents. Though frequently called a strong"state within a state",/strong retired and serving officers insist the ISI is fully integrated into the military chain of command. It is staffed by regular army officers as well as some contractors and civilians, and is the means by which Pakistan's military strongprojects its power/strong internally and overseas./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan"Pakistan/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/india"India/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/alqaida"Al-Qaida/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism"Global terrorism/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan"Afghanistan/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/04CkOSrr4FRrg5N_XgeLn9QdlNs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/04CkOSrr4FRrg5N_XgeLn9QdlNs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/83377?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+At+war+level%3A+India+raises+security+status+amid+griefch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Randeep+Ramesh%2CJason+Burkec7=2008_12_01c8=1126687c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Indian government raised the country's security to a "war level" yesterday saying it had certain proof of a Pakistani link to the Mumbai attacks./ppThe dramatic move prompted Pakistan to say it would end military operations against Islamist militants on the Afghan border, which are critical to the "war on terror", for an "unwanted conflict" with Delhi./ppWith bodies being pulled from the Taj Mahal hotel, where gunmen had made their last stand after a rampage that left more than 170 dead, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, India's minister of state for home affairs, said the country's "intelligence will be increased to a war level, we are asking the state governments to increase security to a war level". The Press Trust of India, India's official news agency also reported that the government was considering suspending the four-year-old peace process with its neighbour./ppPakistan's government has condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied involvement by any "state institutions". But the group named by India, Lashkar-e-Taiba, has longstanding relationships with Pakistan's security establishment. /ppThe US and UK have been urging restraint since the Mumbai terror attacks and escalating tensions on the subcontinent are likely to top the agenda when Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, meets David Miliband, the foreign secretary, today in London./ppThe Indian minister said yesterday there was "no doubt that the terrorists had come from Pakistan ... We have evidence of their nationalities. We will reveal everything soon"./ppIndian police say they have in custody one of the gunmen, a 21-year-old Pakistani, Ajmal Amir Kasab, and detailed accounts of an alleged confession given by him have been played out in the Indian media. Authorities have also recovered a satellite phone that appears to corroborate much of his testimony./ppA fresh confrontation between India and Pakistan would jeopardise attempts by western powers to persuade Pakistan to take on militants linked to the Taliban and al- Qaida in its tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, rather than pitting its forces against India. Pakistani defence sources said nearly 100,000 troops deployed on the western frontier with Afghanistan could be pulled back to deal with a more immediate threat. /ppIn India the government is struggling to contain public anger over the attacks with demonstrators taking to the streets to vent their anger over the inability to stop the killings. The wave violence unleashed claimed its first political casualty yesterday when India's home minister, Shivraj Patil, resigned as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures. /ppIndia's ruling Congress party, which faces a general election next year, has been attacked by opponents for being soft on terrorism, a potent charge given that India has suffered a major attack every month this year. The government said last night it would be urgently upgrading maritime and air security and looking to create a federal investigative agency./ppThe peace process between India and Pakistan now appears in doubt. "There is a view in the government that India should suspend the peace process ... to show that it is not going to take lightly the deadly carnage in Mumbai," the Press Trust of India reported. It quoted sources as saying the government, "including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is very upset as it feels that Pakistan has not kept its promise made at the highest level to end terrorism directed at India"./ppLashkar-e-Taiba, which is fighting Indian control of the disputed Kashmir region, was behind a deadly 2001 assault on the Indian parliament that pushed New Delhi and Islamabad to the brink of war. /ppIt is believed at least 10 militants carried out the assault on Mumbai. 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Articles for November 30th, 2008 Indian commandos mop up last of Mumbai militants swissinfo (19 hours, 2 min ago) Terrorism Other officials have said most, perhaps all, of the attackers were from Pakistan, a Muslim nation carved out of Hindu-majority India in bloodshed in 1947. ... Pakistani militants at center of Mumbai probe msnbc.msn.com (23 hours, 39 min ago) Terrorism India

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/1281?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+England+cricket+team+will+return+to+India+before+the+end+of+the+weekch=Sportc3=The+Guardianc4=England+cricket+team%2CEngland+in+India+2008-09%2CIndia+cricket+team%2CCricket%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CCricketc6=Paul+Weaverc7=2008_11_30c8=1126605c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=England+Cricket+Teamc13=c14=h2=GU%2FSport%2FEngland+Cricket+Team" width="1" height="1" //divpThe England cricket team will return to India on Thursday or Friday to fulfil their agreement to play two Test matches there later this month. The matches are likely to take place in Ahmedabad and Chennai, although Calcutta has been pencilled in as an alternative if the first of these venues is judged to be unsuitable. The warm-up game due at the end of this week will now be played at, or near, the venue for the first Test, which at the moment is due to start in Ahmedabad on Thursday week though everything is dependent on the England and Wales Cricket Board being satisfied about the security arrangements in India following the terrorist atrocities in Mumbai./ppThe ECB will present the players with a safety report today and are likely to confirm on Tuesday that the tour will resume later in the week. There are thought to be few security worries about Chennai but there is some concern that the team hotel in Ahmedabad is in the middle of the city./ppThe board chairman Giles Clarke returned from business meetings in Colombia yesterday and chief executive David Collier came back early from holiday in America to take part in a teleconference with members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India./ppIt is understood that the ECB are also talking to both governments, high commissions in Indian cities, security advisers and other risk assessment experts in order to be able to give the cricketers a thorough dossier on the safety issue in India./ppThey have also spoken with the International Cricket Council and the Professional Cricketers' Association, with whom there has been a constant dialogue. Hugh Morris, the England team's managing director, has already had informal talks with the players. Thoughts of moving the preparation to Abu Dhabi, or of returning to India in the New Year, to shoehorn the series in before the players fly to the Caribbean on January 21, have been discounted./ppThe ECB have been bombarded with telephone calls and emails from cricket supporters in India and at home urging them to continue with the tour. Fifteen of the 18 first-class counties have also contacted the board with their support. But England's players, who arrived back home on Saturday evening following the cancellation of the final two one-day fixtures, could be without two of their biggest names. Steve Harmison, who is hardly renowned for his appetite for touring, could withdraw and he might be supported by his close friend Andrew Flintoff, who also has an ankle injury./ppMorris hinted yesterday that England would not have their first-choice side for the Tests. "At the moment, nothing has been confirmed with any of the players," he said "We are committed, as it stands, to playing in those two Test matches, subject to safety and security advice. The support we've had in India has been incredible. Cricket is a galvanising force in that country and that's got to be taken into account as well."/ppThere are strong feelings at the ECB, reflecting those in the country as a whole, that terrorism must not be seen to win the day. But the ECB are also close to agreeing with the BCCI the staging of a five Test series between the two countries in England in 2011 or 2015; India have not played five Tests in England since 1959./ppLalit Modi, vice-president of the BCCI, suggested yesterday that his board would not press for compensation if England remained at home. "I really do believe that it [the tour] will happen. It's just that we need to take it to another city, which we've agreed to do." Modi, who also recalled that the 2005 Ashes series started within weeks of the attacks in London, added: "We can't allow events around the world to deter us, to be afraid to play."/ppBut Modi has sounded considerably less bullish in recent days. He is clearly desperate for England to return and the ECB would then be well placed to use the enhanced goodwill between the two boards./ppWhatever the make-up of the England team that will return to India they are likely to be greeted as heroes. The country is desperate not to become another Pakistan, which has not hosted international cricket for a year./ppHaroon Lorgat, chief executive of the ICC, yesterday called for England's tour to continue. "I would urge the England Test tour to go ahead and if it does so then representatives of the ICC will be there to show solidarity with the competing teams," he said. 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iJournal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 2-3. (September 2005), pp. 56-114./ibr /br /Abstract Purpose. The purpose of this review is to inform both scientists and clinicians about the increase in cancer incidence throughout the Western World and to discuss environmental influences in cancer aetiology, in order to stimulate thoughts about plausible aetiological mechanisms and possible preventative measures. Design. Literature review. Materials and methods. This review was conducted by searching biomedical databases such as PubMed and Medline. Further research to obtain cancer incidence data involved accessing UK cancer registries, major cancer charities and government statistical records from the Office of National Statistics, the Department of Health, and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Results. Cancer incidence rates have increased in the Western World and this increased incidence affects the whole age spectrum. Epidemiological studies have provided some evidence of an association between exposure to environmental contaminants such as organochlorines and increased cancer risk. However, many epidemiological studies have been inconclusive. Similar reviews concerning environmental influences in cancer aetiology concluded that exposures to carcinogenic or endocrine-disrupting chemicals exist at concentrations too low or have carcinogenic potential too weak to be considered a major factor in cancer aetiology. However, animal and in vitro studies together with epidemiological evidence discussed in this review would dispute that claim; even if healthy adults are not at risk, it would seem that the developing foetus, infant, child and young adults are at risk. In addition, studies discussed in this review show that low oestrogenic potency cannot be used as a marker of the capability of a chemical to cause oestrogenic responses and endocrine disruption. Genetic polymorphisms, which can predispose people to cancer, may interact with environmental contaminants such as organochlorines and endocrine disrupters, thus providing a modifying effect. Prevention measures have hitherto predominately centred on tobacco smoking cessation and diet education. Anecdotal evidence from practising physicians in pre-industrial and traditional living societies, i.e. Canadian Inuits and Brazilian Indians suggests malignant disease was rare. A relatively new theory other than the somatic mutation theory has been proposed, the main premise being that carcinogenesis is a problem of tissue organization, comparable with organogenesis. Conclusions. It is feasible that chemical environmental contaminants, in particular synthetic pesticides and organochlorines with endocrine-disrupting properties, could be major factors in cancer aetiology, particularly for hormone-dependent malignancies, such as breast, testicular and prostate cancers. Animal and in vitro studies provide good evidence of a feasible mechanism whereby environmentally relevant levels of organochlorines and substances of low oestrogenic potency can cause endocrine disruption and consequently malignant disease. In addition, low oestrogenic potency should not be used as a marker of the capability of a chemical to cause oestrogenic responses and endocrine disruption. Preventative measures other than education about tobacco, diet and the promotion of physical activity should be considered. Moreover, it seems to be the most vulnerable members of society: the developing foetus, the developing child and adolescent and the genetically predisposed, who are at risk of developing cancer following involuntary exposure to environmental contaminants. This may be an appropriate time for governments to adopt the precautionary principle until substances to which members of society are involuntarily exposed are proved safe from long-term, low-level effects on human health. The World Health Organization estimates that between 1 and 5% of malignant disease in developed countries is attributable to environmental factors: it is possible that this figure may be underestimated. Anecdotal evidence suggests that cancer may be a disease of industrialization. Further research into the tissue organization field theory may be warranted, as some forms of pre-malignant states are attributed to dysorganogenesis, for example an undescended testis. Keywords: Cancer incidence; epidemiology; cancer and the environment; organochlorines and cancer; persistent organic pollutants and cancer; cancer aetiology; carcinogenesisbr /iNewby, John, Vyvyan Howard, /i

President Bush offers Indian counterpart condolences, expresses solidarity over deadly attack that killed 174

• Indian Police: Pakistani Group Behind Attacks
• Mumbai Jewish Center Gunman 'Sounded Very Calm'
• Unimaginable Carnage Inside Taj Mahal
• PHOTO ESSAY: (WARNING: Graphic Images)
• FOX FORUM: Mumbai: Death's New Paradigm?

The only gunman captured by police after a string of attacks on Mumbai told authorities he belonged to the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, a senior police officer said Sunday.

Indian police have heard the first full account of what led up to the devastating attacks in Mumbai from the only terrorist captured alive, who said he was ordered to kill 'until the last breath,' the U.K.'s Daily Mail newspaper reported Sunday.

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The claims were made as Indian special forces ended the violent sieges around Mumbai with the killing of the final three terrorists holding out in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel - where British survivors had walked through rooms strewn with bodies and 'blood and guts' as they were led to safety./ppThe allegations about Pakistan emerged as India was confronted with the full horror of the past few days. Reporters were allowed into the wrecked and scorched remains of the Taj Mahal and Trident-Oberoi hotels, where scores of victims had been murdered./ppPublic anger in India has been mounting following allegations linking Pakistan to the attacks. They include:/pp· Kasab's claim that militants were trained in two camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan./pp· Allegations that phones found on a trawler suspected of ferrying the gunmen to Mumbai had been used to contact Pakistan./pp· The claim by India's minister of state for home affairs, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, that 'the investigation carried out so far has revealed the hand of Pakistan-based groups in the Mumbai attack'./ppIn response to the claim that the attackers were either Pakistanis or had been trained there, a senior Pakistani official said troops would be sent to the border if tensions continued to rise./ppHowever, despite initial claims, it became increasingly certain that there was no involvement of British-based fundamentalists. Police forces across the UK denied they were investigating named individuals and Gordon Brown said there was no evidence linking any of the terrorist to the UK./ppThe escalating war of words between India and Pakistan has set alarm bells ringing in the United States, where President Bush convened an emergency meeting with senior security officials. President-elect Barack Obama, who has said that reconciliation between the nuclear-armed neighbours is essential to stabilise Afghanistan and defeat al-Qaeda, called Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night to offer condolences./ppThe cold-blooded intent of the militants has shaken India. Officials said just 10 gunmen, with enough arms and ammunition 'to kill 5,000 people', had attacked the Taj, the Trident-Oberoi, the main railway station, a popular restaurant and a cinema. In the siege of a Jewish centre, which was retaken by security forces on Friday night, the militants had bound and shot five people, including a rabbi and his wife, before they were killed./ppA handful of gunmen held out for almost three days, taking hundreds of people hostage, many of them Westerners. Twenty-two of those killed were foreigners. Last night emergency services raised the prospect that many - including three Britons - were still missing from the Taj./ppThe gunmen set the 105-year-old hotel ablaze as they evaded scores of India's best-trained commandos. They left bodies with grenades stuffed into their mouths./ppThe photograph of a baby-faced militant, whom newspaper reports claim is Kasab, wearing combat trousers and swinging an AK47 in Mumbai's main railway station, is the defining image of the rampage. His victims are said to include Mumbai's anti-terror squad chief Hemant Karkare, whose body was cremated yesterday./ppUnder questioning, Kasab is said to have admitted to being a resident of Faridkot in Pakistan's Punjab province. 'I was trained by Lashkar-e-Taiba and asked to cause maximum casualties in Mumbai,' he is alleged to have said, referring to an organisation which India says is sending armed militants into Kashmir. Kasab was arrested on Wednesday night after his partner, said to be Ismail Khan, was shot dead./ppThe duo's night began when they fired on commuters in the railway station and in two hospitals. Kasab told police that they had learnt about Mumbai's geography using Google Earth./ppAccording to Indian media reports, the captured militant said that a room booked in the Taj had been used to store explosives and ammunition ahead of the attacks. This might explain how the squads of gunmen were able to reload their weapons over more than 50 hours and appeared to have an inexhaustible supply of grenades./ppAsif Ali Zardari, the President of Pakistan, yesterday appeared on Indian television in an attempt to defuse tensions. 'As President of Pakistan, if any evidence comes of any individual or group in any part of my country, I shall take the swiftest action in the light of evidence and in front of the world,' he said./ppAnalysts said that the omens did not look good for the peace process between India and Pakistan. 'I expect a very difficult time ahead,' said Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador to Washington. 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Suketu Mehta, author of the Pulitzer-nominated "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" has a wracked and impassioned op-ed in today's New York Times about the Mumbai attacks. Mehta says that the terrorists want to kill the golden dream of Mumbai, and pledges himself to improving the city and its injustices, calling on all of us to renew our commitment to one of the largest, most beautiful, most maddening cities in the world. I spent some time in Mumbai in September, and met some of the warmest, cleverest, most driven people I've ever encountered, from the slums of Dharavi to the IT parks to the Bollywood studios, it was a bottomless well of ambitious strivers who loved their city and worked and played around the clock. The poverty was crushing, the bravery inspiring, the city beautiful and terrible at once. Like most foreigners who visit the city, I stayed in the tourist quarter in Colaba, where many of the attacks occurred -- I had dinner at Leopold's, tea at the Taj, tried to get a train at VT. I hope that all my Mumbai friends are safe and sound. I've been avidly reading the traffic on one of the Indian mailing-lists I lurk on, watching as the Mumbai residents check in, trade stories, give thanks for being alive and, like Mehta, pledge to answer the problems of their city with love instead of hate. In the Bombay I grew up in, your religion was a personal eccentricity, like a hairstyle. In my school, you were denominated by which cricketer or Bollywood star you worshiped, not which prophet. In today’s Mumbai, things have changed. Hindu and Muslim demagogues want the mobs to come out again in the streets, and slaughter one another in the name of God. They want India and Pakistan to go to war. They want Indian Muslims to be expelled. They want India to get out of Kashmir. They want mosques torn down. They want temples bombed. And now it looks as if the latest terrorists were our neighbors, young men dressed not in Afghan tunics but in blue jeans and designer T-shirts. Being South Asian, they would have grown up watching the painted lady that is Mumbai in the movies: a city of flashy cars and flashier women. A pleasure-loving city, a sensual city. Everything that preachers of every religion thunder against. It is, as a monk of the pacifist Jain religion explained to me, “paap-ni-bhoomi”: the sinful land... But the best answer to the terrorists is to dream bigger, make even more money, and visit Mumbai more than ever. Dream of making a good home for all Mumbaikars, not just the denizens of $500-a-night hotel rooms. Dream not just of Bollywood stars like Aishwarya Rai or Shah Rukh Khan, but of clean running water, humane mass transit, better toilets, a responsive government. Make a killing not in God’s name but in the stock market, and then turn up the forbidden music and dance; work hard and party harder. What They Hate About Mumbai (via Jon Taplin) Previously: India: Mumbai Attacks, Day Two; tech speculation - Boing Boing Blasts kill hundreds in Mumbai: local bloggers react - Boing Boing Maximum City: exhausting and beautiful love-note to Mumbai - Boing ......br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=092f52482530c3c1e4d885416507a552amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=092f52482530c3c1e4d885416507a552amp;p=1" border="0" //a

Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil has submitted his resignation in the wake of Mumbai attacks, Indian TV reports.

Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil has submitted his resignation in the wake of Mumbai attacks, Indian TV reports.