After staying two years at the YMCA Colaba, having weekly trips to Leopold and working at the Bombay Stock Exchange, I still consider myself lucky to have escaped two blasts in the region. I can't imagine what my friends sitting there in adjacent buildings must be feeling.
Light a candle for the fallen
"Sad state of the world" as a colleague put it summarises the social behaviour extreme we are witnessing.
But, even though sad and painful, there are economic linkages to what happened.
Some subjects are better left untouched, but maybe there is no better time to discuss this aspect of history, markets and terror.
Moreover, now that psychology has started getting accepted as a valuable aspect in market forecasting, we as a society are not far away from revisiting history that has long been lost and would be ridiculed as a market forecasting tool.
Image: Leopold Cafe after the terror attack. | Photograph: Vaihayasi P Daniel
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