Reporting from Mumbai, India --
With a bit of pluck, even if it was not always heartfelt, a touch of defiance and a dose of the city's famous resilience, Mumbai dusted itself off Monday from last week's terrorist attacks and headed back to work.
Sure I'm scared," said Roshan Tengra, a fiftysomething homemaker in a purple sari, heading into a Bank of India branch a few blocks from the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel where the most protracted militant attack occurred. "I haven't been out of my house for three days. But we have to start our lives again. Whatever else can we do?
She and others joined commentators and Indian celebrities in slamming their politicians and government officials for their response to the attack.
"Let's ask for what's our right," said one, in clipped cellphone-speak. "Right to live fearlessly."
clipped from: www.latimes.com 