Indian police used sniffer dogs and picked through the wreckage for clues on Wednesday after a series of bombs blew apart trains and killed 190 people in the financial capital, Mumbai. The teeming city, symbol of the growing economic power of the world’s largest democracy, was trying to get back to normal a day after the seven apparently coordinated blasts, which also left hundreds wounded.
After giving birth to healthy twins, Mrs A, a young Indian woman, handed them to a United States-based couple knowing she was unlikely to see them again. ”Her parents never knew what she was doing,” her mother-in-law confides. ”She told them she had a baby boy but he passed away.”
Sipping a tumbler of Johnnie Walker whisky as he chats with his friends in a hotel bar in Mumbai, Kunal Doshi, a smartly-dressed young solicitor, appears an unlikely warrior. But in the increasingly bitter "whisky war" being fought between the Indian industry and traditional Scottish producers, Doshi (21) has become an unknowing frontline soldier in a foreign assault on the world’s largest whisky market.