In the blog today I was going to enthuse about a terrific film about Mumbai which I saw today, Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire," and mention a few other interesting books, films and performances I've recently encountered which engage India...
But Mumbai was already in the news when I got home, and not in the arts news. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the train station where the film's happy ending takes place, was one of the targets of today's terrorist attacks on the city; at least ten people were killed there, and many more elsewhere. Hundreds injured, too, and the city at a terrified standstill. Horror.
