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A city under siege, a financial capital crippled, Mumbai is India’s commercial heart and that may be why it and its top hotels were targeted.

Everybody doing businesses in India and that now is pretty much every big company in the world um, will have passed through the gates of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. It is the place where business gets done.

The other hotel, the Oberoi, had airline crew members among the guests caught up in the attacks. It’s very likely Mumbai will take a financial hit if only briefly.

My concern at the moment is this kind of media attention will perhaps detract SMEs, the smaller businesses or the Mid-cap companies. They are maybe gonna be put off thinking. I must analyze my risks. Is it too risky, maybe I should go to other markets that are safer.

An old Indian song says Mumbai is a door to the east with its face to the west. As Bombay, it was the center of British business for centuries, its deep harbor -- the main attraction. Today that harbor is full of luxury yachts.

Mumbai also benefits from its time zone. Its work days start when Tokyo is up and running. It shares many hours with London and ends its day after New York is open for business, one reason why many western banks and IT firms have bases there, though Mumbai was already suffering a stiff fall in property prices and layoffs by the likes of Citigroup and others.

It hits Mumbai the hard time, but you should look at the overall Indian picture, 6% growth forecast for this year, a lot of countries will be very pleased with that. And it’s a, you know, as it’s said, it’s a resilient economy. And it’s a, I don’t think it’s gonna have a long-term effect.

Indian is no stranger to terrorism. Mumbai has been hit before. But this is different. The targets are popular with tourists and businesses, but Mumbai will recover quickly, say those who know it so.

Jim Bolton, cnn, London.

Taj Mahal [ˈtɑːdʒ məˈhɑːl] n. 泰姬陵 a white marble mausoleum in central India, in Agra on the Jumna River: built (1632--43) by the emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal; regarded as the finest example of Mogul architecture.