Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Rickshaw Anybody?

Railway staff worked overnight to clear the mangled wreckage from the Mumbai train lines and stations hit in the attacks. -BBC

On a commuter system that carries 6 million people a day, your odds of being one of the roughly 700 injured or 200 dead are still pretty slim. So with few options for getting to and from work, what else can the residents of Mumbai do but resign themselves to the reality of their new condition? The ability to get on with life is one significant contributing factor to the fact that Indian civilization is 2,500 years old (at the very least) and counting.

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