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Today in Times Comment

• William Rees-Mogg: An historic attack on liberty and democracy
• Bronwen Maddox: We must not lose sight of the real enemy
• Roger Boyes: The Swiss are ahead of us again - this time on drug reform
• Libby Purves: Showbiz shock: we're not in it for the money
• Melanie Reid: In the watery darkness men work by feel alone
• Michael Gove: Yes, it's nuclear power to the people
• Caitlin Moran: The problem with ageing is ... actually, there isn't one
• Leading Article: Give peace a chance
• Leading Article: Aid to industry
• Leading Article: Mumbai in The Times

And from the rest of the papers...

• Denis MacShane: (The Telegraph) - Heads should roll for arresting Damian Green
• Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: (The Telegraph) - World stability hangs by a thread as economies continue to unravel
• Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - Arresting MPs and nationalising banks happen in dictatorships
• Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Nuclear threat hangs over the subcontinent
• Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - Ignorance is no defence. Smith failed in her first duty
• Misha Glenny: (The Guardian) - This was not global jihad. Its roots are far closer to home
• John Pilger: (The Guardian) - Kafka has a rival. Today, the Foreign Office lectures us on human rights
• Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Recession.com
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - Muslims must confront the truth about Mumbai
• Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - Parliament's rights are under threat – and so are ministers'
• Paddy Ashdown: (The Independent) - Corruption and terrorism will flourish without global governance
• Leading Article: (The Independent) - India and Pakistan have a common extremist enemy
• Melanie Phillips: (The Daily Mail) - The Mumbai atrocity is a wake-up call for a frighteningly unprepared Britain
• Clive Crook: (Financial Times) - Bernanke and the risk of deflation

And from around the world...

• William Kristol: (The New York Times) - Jihad's true face
• Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - Deficits and the Future
• Robert J. Samuelson: (The Washington Post) - Obama's economic choice
• L. Gordon Crovitz: (The Wall Street Journal) - Let's move intelligence out of the 1970s
• Suketu Mehta: (International Herald Tribune) - What they hate about Mumbai
• Editorial: (The Times of India) - Make the case

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

Suketu Mehta on Bombay. The city shaped Zubin Mehta, whose father was a conductor there, Dom Moraes, who burst on the English poetic scene in the later 1950s, Salman Rushdie, and Sunil Gavaskar, who has always lived there, and who physically intervened on behalf of victims in Hindu-Muslim riots some years ago. Since those years its receptive cosmopolitanism has been affected by narrower and fiercer political and other allegiances.
To Indian schoolboys in the 1950s elsewhere, the city spelled glamour and peril.
On all the occasions I have been in Mumbai since, I have felt an umistakable energy pulsing through it. That has already resumed.