It's impossible to think that
Mumbai could' of escaped the 2008 terrorist attack psychologically unscathed and it's true that security is uber tight. The
internet cafes demand photo IDs, and I had to bribe the bell-boy just to get me an illegal
sim card. There's cops everywhere milling about and a lot of people have personal memories the attack. The neighborhood I've been sleeping in,
Colaba, was terror attack ground zero.
The
Taj. It's story is that it was build by a rich Indian merchant as sort of a "fuck you" to the British Imperialist, because at the time no Indian was legally admitted to 5-star hotels in Bombay. Anyways it, along with the Victoria Train Terminal was the focus of the attacks which came in by dinghies on the water. You can barely see the cupola to the right which is completely
renovated after the terrorist atomized the last one. I met the guy who imported all the fittings for the new cupola (all from Germany) and he paid my bill of two beers and this sizzler:
...and it was good!
Check points and armored
carriers give security forces a
presence at every street corner of the affected neighborhoods.
At one point some of the bad guys ran to this place which is an up-scale kind of place with it's outrageous western-style prices.
The Taj. It's story is that it was build by a rich Indian merchant as sort of a "fuck you" to the British Imperialist, because at the time no Indian was legally admitted to 5-star hotels in Bombay. Anyways it, along with the Victoria Train Terminal was the focus of the attacks which came in by dinghies on the water. You can barely see the cupola to the right which is completely renovated after the terrorist atomized the last one. I met the guy who imported all the fittings for the new cupola (all from Germany) and he paid my bill of two beers and this sizzler:
...and it was good!
Check points and armored carriers give security forces a presence at every street corner of the affected neighborhoods.
At one point some of the bad guys ran to this place which is an up-scale kind of place with it's outrageous western-style prices.
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