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Article: Here was peculiar grace
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- New Statesman
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- January 26, 2009
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The Indian elite blame Pakistan for the Mumbai attacks. They congratulate themselves on their restraint. But how long can it last? By Jason Cowley
Through the Seventies and much of the Eighties my father used to travel to and in India. He worked in fashion and the clothing business, in "the rag trade". Sometimes he would call from Bombay, Madras or Calcutta, and it would be hard to hear exactly what he was saying, with his voice a wavering echo on an indistinct international telephone line. On several occasions he stayed at the Taj Mahal Hotel in south Bombay, and once, when he was back at home, he showed me pictures of the hotel, with its grand dome and position next to the Gateway to ...