Dear Prashanth, It seems that you are one of those guys who react to headlines & book titles rather than read the full stuff b4 blurting out your well phrased vocabularies!! Read the paragraph..."But none of these folk were the hotshot diamond merchants .... Freelance brokers -- like the 15 who tragically perished on 7/11 -- are the foot-soldiers of the trade. ........Others, without passes, do their trade right on the street. "They probably earn Rs 8,000 to Rs 12,000 a month. They often carry their diamonds tucked in packets even when they travel on the train.....Their income does not afford them the fancy flats in Malabar Hill here so many successful diamond merchants live. ....-- live in very modest homes from Goregaon, northwest Mumbai, and Virar, a satellite township of Mumbai, and commute on the local train into Mumbai every day. Some of them share flats and leave their families back in Gujarat. .....Work finishes at about 6 pm and they climb onto trains headed to the suburbs from Charni Road station and that was how 15 of them became casualties on Tuesday. Whether it be the glitter n glamour or rags, lives are lives too precious to be lost.
