Window on India
July 19, 2006

News Bullets

• After the traumatic terrorist blasts that disrupted the city's Western railway lifeline, killing nearly 200 people and injuring over 700 on Tuesday, the indomitable spirit of Bombay showed itself in shining colours, even as little children and young boys and girls made beelines to their schools and colleges and people stubbornly headed for their factories and offices unmindful of the pouring rains and massive traffic jams caused by the terror attacks. Mumbai was back to normal on Wednesday.
• It was back to normal business in Mumbai stock markets on Friday even as sensex tumbled 10,678 points, a loss of 1.6 per cent, due entirely to fundamentals reflecting global equity trends. The markets had put the (Mumbai) blasts behind them and tracking the things they should normally do.
• "We have a Hindu, a Christian, four Muslims, a Parsee and an agnostic (me). All here to give blood for nameless fellow humans (injured in Tuesday blasts)" - A line from a newspaper article.
• The government on Friday said India's exports rose over 40% during June 2006 to Dollars 9.97 billion.
• The coastal state of Maharashtra in Western India aims to attract investment to the tune of dollars 12,000 to 15,000 million from its 11 special economic zones (SEZ) project ratified by the Central Government. Other states such as Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Haryana and Tamil Nadu have launched similar projects.

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India moves on - By Mr. Arun Sadhu

India moves on. The jehadi terrorists coming from across the borders have time and again failed in their objectives even if they have managed to spill blood of innocent Indians of all hues and sects, killed thousands and maimed many more over the years. The obvious aims of the armed fundamentalists sponsored from abroad seem to be to divide Indian minds, sow the poison of religious hatred and dismantle its thriving economy. But as the serial bombings in Mumbai on the black Tuesday show, violence cannot break the spirit of India's unity and its confidence in its own potential. Perhaps, the Indian economy has acquired that critical momentum which can make it sustain the bloody proxy war of terrorism unleashed upon it by its neighbor, Pakistan . On the day of the blasts on July 11, the Bombay Stock Market (BSE) surged higher, contemptuously ignoring the terrorists' shenanigans. It dipped in a couple of days not because of terror attacks but bowing to the winds blowing in the world markets.

The robust Indian democracy has confounded many political scientists as it defied the common belief that a democracy cannot survive in a heterogeneous country and that India's mind-boggling diversity is just not conducive for a democratic venture. Over a hundred terror blasts in Mumbai during the last decade have failed to unhinge its spirit of communal harmony. There have been doubts, there have been clashes and occasionally blood is spilled. But the aftermath of Tuesday blasts demonstrated these are aberrations. In the event of a real threat to the communal solidarity, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Parsees all stand together.

The wheels of India's democracy move slowly. But they do gather momentum. The Indian juggernaut moves on.