Shops are open, railway platforms are bustling with people. Almost a week after the horrifying attack, people of Mumbai have started to put their lives back on track with heightened morale.
"We can't dodge inside forever, we still have to live our lives," said Duru Mulchandani on Monday, who sells scarves at a shop near Taj Mahal Hotel, a main location tremendously devastated in the incident.
The 46-year-old salesperson said that there was no way that people can hide as such kind of incident could happen anywhere, anytime.
Mulchandani told Xinhua that in the premises she works for, selling all sorts of traditional Indian souvenirs used to attract a lot of tourists.
"Fewer customers are coming now. We were closed for a couple of days and started again on Sunday. We wanted to go back to normal as soon as possible," she said.
At the Mumbai CST railway station, another location intruded by militants in the attack, is crowded with passengers as usual. Shoe-brushing vendors are sitting beside platform ends hoping to earn a living.
Security of the station is obviously tightened up as heavily armed forces and police are patrolling inside. But the scanning machines set at the entrances seem to have little use as people can pass through them freely.
In the recent few days, candle light vigils were held outside the Taj Mahal hotel and the Oberoi Trident hotel for people to mourn for the victims in the incident.
Flowers, white candles and laments were placed on the ground with large crowds gathering and mourning. Some took the chance to call for people to unite amid grief by holding up slogans.
Nazmuddin Unwala, an Indian student, said that the fear that had enveloped the Taj hotel in the last 60 hours has given way to a sense of unity, and such attacks would not deter people from being united, according to local paper Times of India.
P. M. Mogre, Indian Merchant's Chamber told the reporter in a recent interview that after the incident, "India, Mumbai, will become stronger."
He said that with people's determination of protecting their homes, he is confident that Mumbai, the financial center of India, will recover soon and reach to an even higher position.
Source:Xinhua
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