What a shame that innocent people have to suffer again. This is similar to the senseless killings earlier in the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. Hopefully this unites Indians and Pakistanis against senseless terrorism and they join hands in fighting a common enemy.

India has sort this out quickly before there is a western backlash against indians living in u.k and the u.s.a. Indians have traditionally been pro-western so there must be a more complicated explanation for this.

I'm British and living in Mumbai and was in a bar right next to one that was hit tonight. I am devastated that a city I have felt so welcomed in, and know works so hard to attract tourists, was suffering so much tonight.

Sad to see the magnificent and iconic Taj hotel in flames, sadder still the shocking loss of life. Hopefully the deranged lunatics and murderers will not set in course a chain of events that further destabilizes the country and endangers other innocents in India who may be scapegoated for the terrorists' repulsive atrocities. All thoughts and prayers with the people of India.

I read through your story. I find it difficult to go with what you are saying. You seem to have taken a simplistic approach to this tragedy.
You do not seem to understand the ground realities in India.
I am neither a Hindu nor a Muslim. I am a Christian. What is important is, in India, we do not look at one another as a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian. We are Indians first. And, that is what matters most. There are fundamentalist elements in some religions but they do not run the nation.
You say the Hindus will take on the Muslims? Check me out on this...nothing of the sort is going to happen.
India is the largest democracy in the world and it is a mini world in itself. There is no other country in the world which has so many religions; so many ethnic groups; there are so many linguistic groups; and,the beauty of our culture is that we all live together in spite of all this.
Believe me, Indian culture is not as simple as that. I am sorry to say this but you need to know much more about India to make a comment like that.