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Like many of you, I spent much of the past few days glued to coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.\u00c2\u00a0 Like a number of you, the places I saw burning on the screen were spaces I’ve moved through.\u00c2\u00a0 Taken in.\u00c2\u00a0 And as with millions and millions of others, Mumbai was made a part of my time on this planet.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It is, at once, a completely foreign and utterly familiar place.\u00c2\u00a0 It is against that backdrop – and the experience of terrorists attacking my own city – that I found myself very much agreeing with this piece<\/a> by Suketu Mehta:<\/p>\n The terrorists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 message was clear: Stay away from Mumbai or you will get killed. Cricket matches with visiting English and Australian teams have been shelved. Japanese and Western companies have closed their Mumbai offices and prohibited their employees from visiting the city. Tour groups are canceling long-planned trips.<\/p>\n But the best answer to the terrorists is to dream bigger, make even more money, and visit Mumbai more than ever. Dream of making a good home for all Mumbaikars, not just the denizens of $500-a-night hotel rooms. Dream not just of Bollywood stars like Aishwarya Rai or Shah Rukh Khan, but of clean running water, humane mass transit, better toilets, a responsive government. Make a killing not in God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name but in the stock market, and then turn up the forbidden music and dance; work hard and party harder.<\/p>\n If the rest of the world wants to help, it should run toward the explosion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Run toward it.<\/p>\n