Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, one of Mumbai's main train stations has all the clatter you'd expect in a place of comings and goings. It opened in 1888 and 120 years later bad souls cut loose on its platforms and killed 50 people with Ak's and granades. But you wouldn't know it. Like with so many other things in India, people just brush themselves off and get on with it, no memorialising or wallowing. It's still a train station and a gathering place, and a place of hellos and goodbyes. I love that about India - people are so resilient in the face of adversity.
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