Yasmina Zaidman, our Water Portfolio manager, was recently in Delhi during the bombings. Here she shares her immediate reaction and reflections…
Within the last few hours news began streaming in that seven bomb blasts had gone off in Mumbai, killing more than a hundred people and injuring many times that number. As I sit in the Delhi airport waiting for my flight home, the numbers are being updated. Now it’s eight bomb blasts and 146 killed. Some of my fellow travelers are glued to the screen, and trying to get calls through to loved ones or colleagues, while others seem indifferent, as though this is business as usual. As far as I know, this is the biggest bombing since a series of blasts in 1993. I have been reading about the previous attacks in a current bestseller, Maximum City, and somehow as I was reading, the bombs seemed like a part of ancient history, some distant turbulent past. But now the past I was reading about is all too relevant to the present. (more…)
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