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How Do You Deal With A Child’s Questions About Terrorism?

Whether terrorism is economically driven or whether it occurs due to religious strife, we can no longer rely on others to protect us. What can we do as individuals to make the world we live in a safer place for our children?

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Bombay Burning: What Is It That Motivates The Terrorist?

It pains me as it pains millions of others to see my city go up in flames. And while it is easy to point fingers at the coastguard, the government..our national security…when are we going to point fingers at ourselves? When will we question what role large or small, we might have played in molding the mind of the terrorist? The ‘brotherhood of man’ is a concept that society has consistently failed to cultivate. India is certainly no example: although Mahatma Gandhi attempted to unite races and religions, he arguably failed too.

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Café Mondegar – Your Home Away from Home

If there is one place in Mumbai that reminds me of “Cheers”, the famous Boston cafe immortalized in the American TV show by the same name, it’s Cafe Mondegar (or Mondy’s as the locals call it) on Colaba Causeway. Most Mumbaikars (i.e. Mumbai locals) frequent the cafe during their college days and then return to it for a sense of nostalgia, sometime later in life. Invariably it also becomes the Mumbai visitors� local haunt because this is where they can really get to know the locals. Property deals and business contracts are struck on a regular basis at this Mumbai landmark.

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