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...while no one said those same insurgents carried out Tuesday's rush-hour train attacks in Bombay - which police said killed at least 130 people and injured 260 - security sources told TIME they suspected a shadowy alliance of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) working with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movemement of India (SIMI...
...SIMON ROBINSON, Africa bureau chief, TIME The two blocks of shops in Old Melville include a couple of fantastic used-book stores. After browsing for forgotten classics, eat Thai (Soi is a favorite), Indian, Greek or Ethiopian (the newly opened Abyssinica), or have a drink at the Mozambican-flavored Xai Xai Lounge, pictured. If you don't linger you can catch a show at the Market Theatre in artsy Newtown...
...REOPENED. Nathu Pass, on the border between Tibet and the Indian state of Sikkim; in the Tibetan county of Yadong. The Himalayan pass, part of the ancient Silk Road trading route linking Europe and Asia, was closed in 1962 following a brief border war between India and China. While not commercially significant?the primary goods traded across the 4,500-m-high frontier will be farm tools, livestock and rice?the historic opening symbolizes the thawing relations between the world's two most populous countries, between which two-way trade grew 37% last year to nearly $19 billion...
...world of quick changes and reversals, India continues to grow and prosper, setting its own pace, as your thought-provoking story clearly showed. The Indian system of democracy is seeking its own road to equality and social justice, which will make it different from Western and American models. Indians are saving more, eating better and enjoying a higher standard of living than ever before. Yet India has its contradictions. It is important to remember that many people still live in extreme poverty. Vinod C. Dixit Ahmadabad, India...
...Hail to the King I was impressed by Pico Iyer's essay about Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a member of the royal family who is admired by his Thai subjects and who in turn is full of patriarchal love for them [June 19]. Indian epics are full of royal heads who loved and cared for their subjects more than for their family members, but alas such benevolence is rare these days. Indians can only dream of a leader like King Bhumibol who could steer the ship of state to a safe harbor rather than sailing into storms of selfish...