Standing shoulder to shoulder

Mumbaikars have once again demonstrated their immense resilience. India and the world should follow their lead

Defiance amid unity is framing the rightful response of the Indian people. See the following pages for such messages from the local and international legal community – a community with losses of its own to mourn (Inbox; United in grief). India’s openness to the outside world, in the form of its soft commercial underbelly, was arguably the primary target of these deranged yet calculating and well prepared exponents of asymmetrical warfare.

Resisting temptations to close the country’s doors to foreign elements will take political and electoral courage. As will reining in instincts for vengeful sabre-rattling or worse. India Business Law Journal strongly supports statesman-like restraint in the face of naked provocation. To act otherwise would offer a posthumous victory of sorts to the malicious zealots seeking to isolate and destabilize India.

While India Business Law Journal grieves with its friends within the business community and beyond, it takes heed of warnings from Steve Vickers, president of International Risk, and others, who stress the need for “business as usual”.